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they may not come to them at their ease as they 

 would, and that the humours runneth into the 

 ballocks, and sometimes when they be smitten 

 upon in hunting or in other places. To this sick- 

 ness and to all others in that manner, the best 

 help is for to make a purse of cloth three or four 

 times double, and take linseed and put it within, 

 and put it in a pot, and let it mingle with wien, 

 and let them well boil together, and mix it always 

 with a stick, and when it is well boiled put it 

 within the purse that I spoke of, as hot as the 

 hound may suffer it, and put his ballocks in that 

 purse, and bind it with a band betwixt the thighs 

 above the back, make well fast the ballocks up- 

 wards, and leave a hole in the cloth for to put 

 out the tail and his anus, and another hole before 

 for the yerde so that he may scombre and piss 

 and renew that thing once or twice until the time 

 that he be whole. Also it is a well good thing 

 for a man or for a horse that hath this sickness. 1 



1 The Shirley MS. has the following ending to this chapter : 

 "And God forbid that for (a) little labour or cost of this 

 medicine, man should see his good kind hound perish, that 

 before hath made him so many comfortable disports at divers 

 times in hunting," which is not taken from G. de F. 



