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drink ■wormwood before they take food. Then shall Book i, 

 a salve be wrought for nnsharpsighted eyes ; take 

 pepper and beat it, and beetle nut^ and a somewhat 

 of salt, and wine ; that will be a good salve. 



13. For much eye ache. Many a man hath mickle 

 ache in his eyes. Work him then groundsel and 

 bishopwort^ and fennel, boil all the worts in water, 

 milk is better, make that throw up a reek on the 

 eyes. Again, let him mingle with wine celandine and 

 woodbines leaves and the herh cuckoosour.'^ 



14. Again, for much eye ache, pound in wine the 

 nether part of cropleek ^ and the nether part of 

 Wihtmars wort,^ let it stand two days. For pearl, an 

 eye salve ; take ashes of broom and a bowl full of hot 

 wine, pour tlds by a little at a time thrice on the hot 

 ashes, and put that then into a brass or a copper vessel, 

 add somewhat of honey and mix together, apply to 

 the infirm mans eyes, and again wash the eyes in a 

 clean wyll spring. For pearl on the eye, apply the gall 

 of a hare, warm, for about two days, it flieth from the 

 eyes. Against white spot, take an unripe sloe, and 

 wring the juice of it through a cloth on the eye, soon, 

 in three days the spot will disappear, if the sloe be 

 green. Against white spot, mingle together vinegar 



and burnt salt^ and barley meal, apply it to the eye, " A substitute 

 hold thine hand a long while on it. moniaclim'/' 



15. For pearl, an eye salve ; take seed of celandine 

 or the root of it, rub it into old wine and into honey, 

 add pepper, let it stand for a night by the fire, use it 

 when thou wilt sleep. Against white spot, boil in 

 butter the nether part of ox-slip'^ and alder'' rind. 



16. In case the eyes be tearful, juice of rue, and 



' The evidence, such as it is, for 

 this rendering will be given in the 

 glossary. 



- Herbar. i. Betonica officinalis. 



^ Oxalis Acetosella. 



VOL. IL C 



Allium sativum, probably. 

 Cochlearia anylica, perhaps. 

 Primula veris elatior. 

 Aliius glutinosa. 



