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Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce fut le serpent qui creva.

Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle! Ce fut le serpent qui creva.

What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.

One man's strawberries are another man's hives.

A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood.

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.

While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light, And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.

All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Poison is drunk out of gold.

Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very different from thousands; indeed 'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.