48. 



47. Worm in a sheefs foot. 



Worms in a 

 sheep's foot. 



47. ^ The worme in the shepes fote, and helpe therfore. 



There be some shepe, that hath a worme in his foote, 

 that maketh hym halte. Take that shepe, and loke be- 

 twene his clese, and there is a lyttell hole, as moche as a 

 4 greatte pynnes heed, and therin groweth fyue or syxe 

 blacke heares, lyke an inche long and more ; take a sharpe 

 poynted knyfe, and slytte the skynne a quarter of an inche 

 long aboue the hole and as moche benethe, and put thy 

 How cured, g one hande in the holowe of the fote, vnder the hynder 

 clese, and set thy thombe aboue almooste at the slytte, 

 and thruste thy fyngers vnderneth forward, and with thy 

 other hand take the blacke heares by the ende, or with 



12 thy knyues poynte, and pull the heares a lyttell and a 

 lyttell, and thruste after thy other hande, with thy fynger 

 and thy thombe, and there wyll come oute a worme lyke 

 a pece of fleshe, nygh as moche as a lyttel fynger. And 



1 6 whan it is out, put a lyttel tarre into the hole, and it wyll 

 be shortely hole. 



[Fol. 31*.] 



'The blood' 

 in sheep. 



Cut off the 

 sheep's ears. 



48. ^ The blode, and remedy if one come betyme. 



There is a sicknes amowg shepe, and is called the 



bloude ; that shepe, that hath that, wil dye sodeinly, and 



er he dye, he wil stande stil, and hange downe the heed, 



4 & other-while quake. If the shepeherde can espye 



hym, let him take and rubbe hym about the heed, & 



specyally about his eares, and vnder his eyen, & with 



a knyfe cut of his eares in the middes, & also let hym 



8 blode in a veyne vnder his eien : and if he blede wel, 



he is lyke to lyue ; and if he blede not, than kil him, and 



saue his fleshe. For if he dye by hym-selfe, the flesshe is 



loste, and the skyn wyll be ferre ruddyer, lyke blode, 



12 more than an other skynne shall be. And it taketh 



mooste commonly the fattest and best lykynge. 



