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that tlie ])aueful sores may 



neitlier burn nor burst, 



nor find their way further, 



nor turn foul and ftillow, 



nor thump and throb on, 



nor be wicked wounds, 



nor dig deeply down ; 



but he himself may liold 



in a way to health. 



Let it ache thee no more, 



than ear in earth ^ acheth. 

 Sing also this many times, ^ " May earth bear on 

 " thee with all her might and main." These cliarms 

 a man may sing over a wound. 



Ixiv. 



A lithe drink against a devil and dementedness. 

 Put into ale cassuck, roots of lupin, fennel, ontre, 

 betony, hindheal, marche, rue, wormwood, nepeta, hele- 

 nium, elfthone, wolfs comb ; sing twelve masses over 

 the drink, and let the man drink, it will soon be weU 

 with him. A drink against temptations of the devil ; 

 tuftythorn, cropleek, lupin, ontre, bishopwort, fennel, 

 cassuck, betony ; hallow these worts,^ put into some ale 

 some holy water, and let the drink be in the same 

 chamber as the sick man, and constantly before he 

 drinketh sing thrice over the drink, " Deus ! In 

 " nomine tuo salvum me fac." 



Book Iir. 

 Ch. Ixiii. 



Ixv. 



If a man be overlooked, and thou must cure him, 

 see that his face be turned to thee when thou goest 

 in, then he may live ; if his face be turned from thee, 

 have thou nothing to do with him. If he may live, 



1 In the grave. 



* This seems intended to quell the 



elf. 



By a fonnula of henediction. 



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