"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 happen to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death."
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter II. Holland's translation.
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