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42. How to grease sheep. 



How to 



grease 



sheep. 



[Fol. 29*.] 



Part the 

 woolandput 

 tai on. 



42. ^ To grease shepe. 



If any sheepe be scabbed, the shepeherde maye per- 

 ceyue it by the bytynge, rubbyng, or scratchynge with 

 his home, and mooste commonly the woU wyll ryse, and 



4 be thyn or bare in that place : than take hym, and shede 

 the woll with thy fyngers, there as the scab is, and with 

 thy fynger laye a lyttell terre thervpon, and stroke it a 

 lengthe in the bottom of the woll, that it be not seen 



8 aboue. And so shede the woll by and by, and laye a 

 lyttell terre thervppon, tyll thou passe the sore, and than 

 it wyll go no farther. 



How to mix 

 tar. 



43. \ To medle terre. 



Let thy terre be medled with oyle, gose-grease, or 

 capons grease, these three be the beste, for these wyll 

 make the terre to ronne abrode : butter and swynes grease, 

 4 whan they be molten, are good, soo they be not salte ; for 

 terre of hym-selfe is to kene, and is a fretter, and no 

 healer, without it be medled with some of these. 



44. ^ To make brome salue. 



\ A medicyne to salue poore mennes shepe, that thynke 



terre to costely : but I doubte not, but and ryche men 



[Fol. 30.] knowe it, they wolde vse the same. Take a shete ful of 



Chopbroom 4 brome, croppes, leaues, blossomes, and all, and chop 



small, and 



boil it; them very smal, and than sethe them m a pan of .xx. 



gallons with rennynge water, tyll it begyn to waxe thycke 

 like a gelly, than take two pounde of shepe suet molten, 



add suet and g and a pottell of olde pysse, and as moche bryne made 

 with salte, and put all in-to the sayde panne, and styrre it 

 aboute, and than streyne it thorowe an olde clothe, and 

 putte it in-to what vessell ye wyll, and yf your shepe be 



use it warm j 2 newe clvpped, make it luke-warme, and than washe your 



with a Ji.f> 



sponge. shepe there-with, with a sponge or a pece of an olde 



mantell, or of faldynge, or suche a softe cloth or woll. 



