Q: fast-acting poison

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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    Mithradatism. And look where that got the King.
     
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    ...There was a king reigned in the East:
    There, when kings will sit to feast,
    They get their fill before they think
    With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
    He gathered all that springs to birth
    From the many-venomed earth;
    First a little, thence to more,
    He sampled all her killing store;
    And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
    Sate the king when healths went round.
    They put arsenic in his meat
    And stared aghast to watch him eat;
    They poured strychnine in his cup
    And shook to see him drink it up:
    They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
    Them it was their poison hurt.
    —I tell the tale that I heard told.
    Mithridates, he died old.

    - A. E. Housman
     
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    Actually Mithradates was face with a rebellion and attempted to poison himself. To no avail, due to his preparations, so he was either (depending on the source) forced to ask his bodyguard to kill him with a sword or, weakened by age and the sub-lethal dose of poison he'd been able to take, unable to commit suicide and slain by his foes.

    According to memory and Wikipedia, that is.
     
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