102 THE MASTER OF GAME 



mallows and of the onions and of white lilies, 1 

 and cut them small with a knife, and put them in 

 a ladle of iron and mingle these herbs whereof I 

 speak, and lay them upon the sores, and that shall 

 make them rise, and when they be risen, slit them 

 with a sharp knife. And when they be so broken, 

 lay upon them some good drawing salve, and he 

 be whole. Sometimes the hounds fight and bite 

 each other, and then they shall take sheep's wool 

 unwashed, and a little olive oil, and wet the wool 

 in the oil, and lay it upon the hound's wound, and 

 bind it thereupon, and do so three days, and then 

 after twice each day anoint it with olive oil, and 

 lay nothing upon it. And he shall lick it with his 

 tongue and heal himself. 2 If peradventure in the 

 wound come worms as I have seen some time, 

 every day ye shall pick them out with a stick, and 

 ye shall put in the wound the juice of leaves of a 

 peach tree mingled with quicklime until the time 

 that they be whole. Also it happeneth to many 

 hounds that they smite the forelegs against the 

 hinder wherefore their thighs dry 3 and be lost 



1 Lilies. The white lilies here mentioned are probably 

 Lilium connalium (lilies of the valley). In an old book of 

 recipes I find them mentioned as an antidote to poison. {Haus 

 und Laud Bib. 1700.) They have medicinal qualities, purgative 

 and diuretic in effect. Dried and powdered they become a 

 sternutatory. 



2 In the Shirley MS. there is added: "the hound tongue 

 beareth medicine and especially to himself." G. de F. has the 

 same (p. 97). 3 Wither or dry up. 



