90 THE MASTER OF GAME 



a good medicine and a true, for it hath been 

 proved, and every day should it be laid upon the 

 biting twice, as hot as it can be suffered, until 

 the time when it be whole, or else by nine days. 

 And yet there is another medicine better than all 

 the other. Take leeks and strong garlic and 

 chives and rue and nettles and hack them small 

 with a knife, and then mingle them with olive oil 

 and vinegar, and boil them together, and then 

 take all the herbs, also as hot as they may be 

 suffered, and lay them on the wound every day 

 twice, till the wound be healed, or at least for 

 nine days. But at the beginning that the wound 

 be closed or garsed ^ (cupped) for to draw out 

 the venom out of the wound because that it goeth 

 not to the heart. And if a hound is bit by another 

 mad hound it is a good thing for to hollow it all 

 about the biting with a hot iron. The hounds 

 have also another sickness that is called the mange, 

 that cometh to them because that they be melan- 

 choly. There are four manners of mange, that 

 one is called the quick mange the which pulleth ^ 

 the hounds and breaketh their skins in many 

 places, and the skin waxeth great and thick, and 



^ In Shirley MS. " ventoused upon or gersed." G. de F. : 

 " ventouses, que on appelle coupes," hence " cupped and lanced " 

 would be the j)roper meaning. 



' Makes them lose their hair. G. de F. (p. 90), "et s\ poile 

 le chien." 



