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this poifon, after (hutting her up alone in a feparate 
place : fo that, when this woman dies, ’tis a fign, that 
the poifon is fufficiently boil’d, and that it has all the 
qualities requifite to make it good. But I was foon 
made fenfible of my imprudence : the door ot the 
clofet, where the young lad above-mention’d (laid, 
was open ; and from the next chamber I faw, that 
the lad, who had been there about three quarters of 
an hour, fat ft ill, with his arms acrofs. I began to 
reprimand him for his lazinefs ; but he excufed him- 
felf, by anfwering, with a trembling voice, that he 
was fick at heart, and felt himfelf very faint. ’Tis 
eafy to imagine the uneafinefs, which this light gave 
me ; but luckily it cofl me no more than the fright. 
I made the lad come out of the clofet immediately, 
led him down into the yard, and made him fwallow 
a pint of good wine, in which I had diflolved a quar- 
tern of fugar. He recover’d his ftrength by degrees, 
and was foon able to return to his own home, very 
merry and happy, without the leaft notion of the 
danger he had been in. Some days afterwards lie 
came to me, and allured me, that he had not felt 
the leaft indifpofttion fince the day in queftion. 
The fadt above related was (hocking enough to 
make me abandon my projedt : however, curiofity 
got the better of my fear; and I even took a ftrong 
fancy to repeat the experiment. It would be inhu- 
man, not to fay criminal, to make it on any other 
perfon but myfelf: wherefore I refolved to run the 
risk, or rather, I perfuadcd myfelf, that I (hould run 
none, becaufe I (hould be timely enough to dee from 
the danger, as foon as the effect of the poifo;i (hould 
come to a certain pitch. Bcfidcs, I was encouraged 
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