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Cluists mark or cross, lovagc ; work up the driuk off '^ook I. 

 clear ale, sing seven masses over the worts, add garlic and '^ '' '''"' 

 holy water, and drip the drink into every drink which 

 he will subsequently drink, and let him sing the psalm, 

 Beati immaculati, and Exurgat, and Salvum me fac, dens, Psalm cxix. 

 and then let him drink the drink out of a church bell, Psaim Ixix.' 

 and let the mass priest after the drink sing this over 

 him, Domine, sancte pater omnipotens.' For a lunatic; 

 costmary, goutweed, lupin, betony, attorlothe, cropleek, 

 field gentian, hove, fennel; let masses be sung over, 

 let it be wrought of foreign ale and of holy water ; 

 let him drink this drink for nine mornings, at every 

 one fresh, and no other liquid that is thick and still, 

 and let him give alms, and earnestly pray God for his 

 mercies. For the phrenzied ; bishopwort, lupin, bonewort, 

 everfern,^ githrife, elecampane, when day and night di- 

 vide, then sing thou in the church litanies, that is, 

 the names of the hallows or saints, and the Pater- 

 noster ; with the song go thou, that thou mayest be 

 near the worts, and go thrice about them, and when 

 thou takest them go again to church with the same 

 song, and sing twelve masses over them, and over all 

 the drinks which belong to the disease, in honour of 

 the twelve apostles. 



Ixiv. 



Against every evil rune lay,^ and one full of elvish A holy amultt. 

 tricks, write for the bewitched man this writing in 

 Greek letters : alfa, omega, iesvm (?) beronikh.* Again, ix0Y5 ? 

 another dust or powder and drink against a rune lay ; 

 take a bramble apple,^ and hipins, and pulegium, pound ^ ^ oiackhary. 

 them, then sift them, put them in a pouch, lay them 

 under the altar, sing nine masses over them, put the 



' A formula of Benediction ; ! ^ Heathen charm, 

 several such are found in the ' Invoking the miraculous por- 



Missals. trait of Christ on the kerchief of 



- Polypodium vnhjare. \ St. "Veronica. 



