Brewer's: Gruel

To give him his gruel. To kill him. The allusion is to the very common practice in France, in the sixteenth century, of giving poisoned possets—an art brought to perfection by Catherine de Medicis and her Italian advisers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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