45. Maggots in sheep. 47 



for spend)'nge to moche of your salue. And at all tymes i*£f°*'^ 

 1 6 of the yere after, ye may relent it, and nede require : and time, 

 make wyde sheydes in the woll of the shepe, and anoynt 

 them with it, & it shal heale the scabbe, and kyll the 

 shepe-lyce, and it shall not hurte the woll in the sale 

 20 therof. And those that be washen wyll not take scabbe 

 after (if they haue suflScient meate) ; for that is the beste 

 grease that is to a shepe, to grease hym in the mouthe 

 with good meate ; the whiche is also a greate saueguarde 

 24 to the shepe for rott}Tige, excepte there come myldewes, P^^^ ™^*h 

 for he wyl chose the beste, if he haue plentye. And [FoI. 30^.] 

 he that hath but a fewe shepe moderate this medicyne grease for 



sheep. 



accordynge. 



45. ^ If a shepe haue mathes. 



If a shepe haue mathes, ye shall perceyue it by her Maggots in 

 bytynge, or fyskynge, or shak)Tig of her tayle, and mooste 

 commonlye it is moyst and wete : and if it be nyghe vnto ' 



4 the tayle, it is ofte tymes grene, and fyled with his 



dounge : and than the shepeherde muste take a payre How cured, 

 of sheres, and clyppe awaye the woll bare to the skynne, 

 and take a handfull of drye moldes, and cast the moldes 



8 ther\'pon to drj'e vp the wete, and then w}'pe the muldes 

 away, and lay terre there as the mathes were, and a Ij-ttell 

 farther. And thus loke theym euery daye, and mende 

 theym, if they haue nede. 



46. ^ Blyndenes of shepe, and other dyseases, and 

 remedies therfore. 



There be some shepe that wyll be blynd a season, and Blindness in 



sheep. 



yet mende agayn. And if thou put a lytel terre in his eye, 

 he will mende the rather. There be doners waters, & 

 4 other medicyns, that wolde mende hym, but this iS[Foi. 31.] 

 [the] mooste common medicyne that shepeherdes vse. 



