Note 325 — ACT V.
Reading edition
In the closing chapter of Vulgar Errors, Sir Thomas Browne writes:—“I hope it is not true, and some indeed have probably denied, what is recorded of the monk who poisoned Henry the emperor in a draught of the Holy Eucharist. ’Twas a scandalous wound unto the Christian religion, and I hope all Pagans will forgive it, when they shall read that a Christian was poisoned in a cup of Christ and received his bane in a draught of his salvation.”