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and lichen from the blackthorn, dry it to dust, moisten Book I. 

 with honey, tend tlie wound therewith. Against }»ite xlvui. 



of hunting s}jider, black snails fried in a hot pan and 

 rubbed to dust, and pepper, and betony, let the man 

 eat the dust, and drink it, and lay it on. For bite of 

 hunting spider, take the netherward part of mallow, 

 la}' it on the wound. Again, strike five scarifications, 

 one on the bite, and four round about it, throw the 

 blood with a spoon silently over a wagon way. 



Ixix. 



For bite of mad dog; mingle with honey agrimony 

 and waybroad, and the white of an egg, dress tho 

 wound witli that. For wound by a hound ; foxes 

 clote,^ groundsel, boil these in butter, smear tlierewith. "^'c'^'wA. 

 Again, triturate betony, lay it on the bite. Again, 

 beat waybroad, lay it on. Again, seethe two or three 

 onions, roast them on ashes, mingle with fat and 

 honey, lay on. Again, burn a swines cheek or jaw to 

 ashes, shed this on. Again, take more or root of way- 

 broad, pound it, put it on the wound with lard, then 

 it will scrape the venom away. 



Ixx. 



If a man be too salacious, boil waiter agrimony iu 

 foreign ale, let himi drink thereof at night fasting. If 

 a man be too slow ad venerem, boil that ilk wort iu 

 milk, then tliou givest him corage. Boil in ewes 

 milk, again, hindheal, alexanders, the wort vjJtich hight 

 Fornets' palm,* then it will be with him as he would ^ l^ul^uown. 

 liefest have it be. 



' For Foinet or Fonijot, see the iudex of names. 

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