LEECH BOOK. III. 355 



boil in butter betony, gitlirife, yarrow, pulegiimi, pel- Book III. 



litory ; wring through a cloth, let it stand, heat a 



cup full in milk warm from the cow, put five pieces 



of the salve into it ; let the man sup up that at 



night fasting, and let him eat fresh flesh in the part 



where it is fattest : and at night take the salve and 



comfort the wound with old lard or with fresh butter ; 



when it is clean, and a good red, leech with the same 



salve, and let it not unite, if it be clean ; make it unite 



afterwards. If it will not for this leechdom get better, 



boil in milk the red yarrow, and fennel, and flaxwort, 



of all equal quantities, let them boil five times, wring 



through a cloth. Brew up a pretty strong brewit 



upon this, with wheat meal, shave a piece of good 



wax into it, and shake up together ; let it cool, take 



three little bits of hares wool, wind them on the 



outside about with the brewit, that he may swallow 



them, and let him sup it up with milk warm from 



the cow. 



Ixvi, 



A drink, if the '' dry " disease be on a man ; take 

 the netherward part of these worts, fennel, bishopwort, 

 ashthroat, of all equal quantities ; of these two folloiu- 

 ing more than of the others, the upward part of rue, 

 and betony ; pour them over with clear ale, and sing 

 three masses over them, and let the man drink about 

 two days from the time when it was poured over, 

 before his meat and after. 



Ixvii. 



For one devil sick ; put into holy water and into 

 ale, bishopwort, hind heal, agrimony, alexanders, gitli- 

 rife ; give to the man to drink. Again, cassuck, tufty 

 thorn, stonecrop, lupin, fennel, everthroat, cropleek ; 

 pour over them similarly. Again, a spew drink against 

 the devil ; take a mickle hand full of sedge, and gladden, 



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