Severus Snape, 2-4 July, 1996, Notes

... was a king reigned in the East: There, where kinds will set to feast, they get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He gathered all the springs to birth From the many-venomed earth; First a little, then to more, he sampled all her killing store; And easy, smiling, season'd sound, Sate the king when healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat And stared, aghast,...