CHARGE AGAINST MR. LUMSDBN, & c . 155 



find mention of poisons of beasts and serpents ; * the 

 &quot; poison of asps is under their lips.&quot; But I find no 

 example in the book of God of impoisonment. I 

 have sometime thought of the words in the psalm, 

 &quot; let their table be made a snare.&quot; Which certainly 

 is most true of impoisonment ; for the table, the 

 daily bread, for which we pray, is turned to a dead 

 ly snare : but I think rather that that was meant of 

 the treachery of friends that were participant of the 

 same table. 



But let us go on. It is an offence, my lords, that 

 hath the two spurs of offending ; &quot; spes perficiendi,&quot; 

 and &quot; spes celandi :&quot; it is easily committed, and easily 

 concealed. 



It is an offence that is &quot; tanquam sagitta nocte 

 &quot; volans ;&quot; it is the arrow that flies by night. It 

 discerns not whom it hits : for many times the poi 

 son is laid for one, and the other takes it; as in San- 

 ders s case, where the poisoned apple was laid for 

 the mother, and was taken up by the child, and 

 killed the child : and so in that notorious case, where 

 upon the statute of 22 Hen. VI II. cap. 9. was made, 

 where the intent being to poison but one or two, 

 poison was put into a little vessel of barm that stood 

 in the kitchen of the bishop of Rochester s house ; 

 of which barm pottage, or gruel was made, where 

 with seventeen of the bishop s family were poisoned : 

 nay, divers of the poor that came to the bishop s 

 gate, and had the broken pottage in alms, were like 

 wise poisoned. And therefore if any man will com 

 fort himself, or think with himself, Here is great 



