XXXVI.

French.

De Sœur le frere par simulte feintise, Viendra mesler rosee en Mineral, Sur la placente donne a vieille tardive, Meurt le goustant, sera simple rural.

English.

The Brother of the Sister, with a fained dissimulation, Shall mix Dew with Mineral, In a Cake given to a slow old woman, She dieth tasting of, the deed shall be simple, and Countrey like.

ANNOT.

This foretelleth a notable poisoning that shall be done by a Brother upon his Sister, which, because she died not fast enough, according to his mind: and therefore called her _slow_, he would set her forward with a poisoned Cake, the Poison was _Mineral_, and therefore _Arsenick_ or _Sublimate_, mixed with _Manna_, called here _Dew_; because _Manna_ is nothing but a _Dew_, condensed upon the Bark of a certain Tree; the Conclusion is, that the woman shall die eating of it, though the meat seemed to be simple and rural.