LKEflf HOOK. I. ]')7 



2. A head bath for that ; boil willow leaves in water, Book T. 

 wash with that, ere thou sinear it, and pound tlie ^'''- l^xxvn. 

 leaves so sodden, bind on at night, till they be dry, 



that thou may after smear with the salve ; do so for 

 thirty nights, longer if need for it be. In order that 

 the hair may not wax ; take emmets eggs, rub them 

 up, smudge on the place ; never will any hair come 

 up there. 



3. If hair be too thick, take a swallow, burn it to 

 ashes under a tile, and have the ashes shed on. 



Ixxxviii. 



1. For a horses leprosy,^ take the hare- 

 wort, pound it well, then mingle with fresh butter, 

 boil thoroughly in butter, put it on the horse as hot 

 as possible, smear every day, always apply the salve. 

 If the leprosy be mickle, take piss, heat it with stones, 

 wash the horse with the piss so hot ; when it is dr}'', 

 smear with the salve, apply also leechdoms inwardl3^ 

 Again, take runnings of salt, heat them, wash with 

 that, and when it is dry, smear with fishes grease. If 

 a horse be galled, take stichwort, and goutweed, and 

 maythe, pound well, add butter, wring it wetting it 

 through a cloth, add white salt, shake thoroughly, 

 leech the gall therewith. For a horses gall, take ash- 

 throat, and the upward part of goutweed, and rosemary 

 also, pound together, boil in fat and in butter, strain 

 through a cloth, smear therewith. 



2. If a horse or other neat be elf shot,^ take sorrel 

 seed and Scottish wax, let a man sing twelve masses 

 over it, and put holy water on the horse, or on what- 

 soever neat it be, have the worts always with thee. 



o. For the same ; take an eye of a broken needle, 

 give the horse a prick luith it behind in the barrel, 

 no harm shall come. 



' Grease in the legs ? 



- The Scottish phrase for this disease ; see the Glossary. 



