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axe!’ At once receiving my cloak, I went out to themarket-square. When I was nearly half-way there, Imet my daughter’s husband looking sorrowful, who said,‘ Whither do you go?’ I replied, ‘ I doubt whether myson, conscious of the deed, has not made full confession.Then he replied, ‘ It is so. It has lately happened.’ Amessenger whom I had sent then ran to me and told meall.”
Gianbatista, who had at first maintained reserve, wasunable to restrain himself during a subsequent exami-nation, when he heard the evasions of his famulus. Thatyouth declared that he had received the powder from hismaster, understanding that it was to be given to Brandoniafor the purpose of increasing her milk, because she was illable to suckle the infant. When presently the personwas introduced of whom the poison had been bought, thecriminal confessed freely all of which he was accused, andeven more. Tor he said that he had held the deed twomonths in contemplation, and that it had been twicebefore attempted 1 .
1 De Luctu.