LEECH BOOK. I. 137 



Hage, cassock, in foreigu ale ; add holy water and i^<>'>^ I. 



Ch. Ixii. 

 spring wort. 



8. A man shall write this upon the sacramental An exorcism 



paten, and wash it ofi' into the drink with holy water, 



and sing over it .... In the beginning, etc. (John 



i. 1.) Then wash the writing with holy Avater ott' the 



dish into the drink, then sing the Credo, and the 



Paternoster, and this lay, Beati immaculati, the psalm ;' 



with the twelve prayer psalms, I adjure you, etc. And 



let each of the two^ men then sip thrice of the water 



so prepared, 



Inde salutiferis incedens gressibus urbes, 



Oppida, rura, casas, vicos, castella peragrans 



Omnia depulsis sanabat corpora morbis. 



SEDVLIVS. 



Ixiii. 



For a fiend sick man, or demoniac, when a devil 

 possesses the man or controls him from within with 

 disease ; a spew drink, or emetic, lupin, bishop wort, 

 henbane, cropleek ; pound these together, add ale for 

 a liquid, let it stand for a night, add fifty libcorns, 

 or cathartiG grains, and holy water. A drink for a 

 fiend sick man, to be drunk out of a church bell ; cimrch bell. 

 githrife, cynoglossum, yarrow, lupin, betony, attorlothe, 

 cassock, flower de luce, fennel, church lichen, lichen, of 



' Psalm, cxix. 



- Two, the leech and the sick ; two is in j^ehpaj^cji. 



