LEECn BOOK. J. 155 



l^^V- Book I. 



If a man eat wolfs bane, let him eat and drink but- ^^' ^^^^^"''' 

 ter, the poison will go off in the butter. Again for 

 that, let him stand upon his heid, let some one strike 

 him many scarifications on the shanks, then the venom 

 departs out through the incisions. 



Ixxxv. 



If a man try to fight with his foe, let him seethe 

 staith swallow nesthngs ' in wine, then let him eat 

 them ere the fight, or seethe them in spring water. 



Ixxxvi. 



For mickle travelling over land, lest he tire, let him 

 take mugwort''^ to him in hand, or put it into his shoe, Vol. I. xi. i. 

 lest he should weary, and when he will pluck it, be- 

 fore the upgoing of the sun, let him say fu-st these 

 words, " I will take thee, artemisia, lest I be weary on 

 the way," etc. Sign it with the sign of the cross, 

 when thou puUest it up. 



Ixxxvii. 



1. If a mans hair fall off, work him a salve, take 

 the mickle wolfs bane, and vipers bugloss, and the 

 netherward part of burdock, and ferdwort, work the 

 salve out of that wort, and out of all these, and out 

 of that butter on which no water hath come. If hair 

 fall off, boil the polypody fern, and foment the head Avith 

 that, so warm. In case that a man be bald, Plinius, 

 the mickle leech, saitli this leechdom : take dead bees, 

 bm-n them to ashes, and linseed also, add oil iipon that, 

 seethe very long over gledes, then strain, wring out, 

 and take leaves of willow, pound them, pour the juice 

 into the oil, boil again for a while on gledes, strain 

 them, smear therewith after the bath. 



' Sand martins, hirundines riparia>. 



