Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

LEECH BOOK. III. 357
put them into a pan, pour a niicklc }jowl lull ol" ale J^ook III.
upon them ; boil half, rub fine twenty libcorns, put
them into it ; this is a good drink against the devil.
Ixviii.
A light drink tor the wood heart ; lupin, bishopwort,
enchanters nightshade, helenium, cropleek, hindheal,
ontre, elote. Take these worts when day and
night divide ; sing first in church a litany, and a
Credo, and a Pater noster, with the song go to the
worts, go thrice around them, before thou touch them ;
and go again to church, sing twelve masses over the
worts when thou hast poured —
^ over them.
Ixix.
1. If a mans stomach be soured and swollen ; take
holly leaves, two mickle Iiands full, scrape them very
small, boil them in milk till they be pretty tender, pick
them out by a bit at a time ; then let the man eat six
bits,
in a morning three, and in evening three, and after
his meat. Thus do for nine days, longer if need be.
2. If a man be swollen, let him cat rue and drink
it ; he will be well.
3. For pain of maw ;
let the man taste at night
fasting, seed of rue, and quicksilver, and vinegar.
Agaui, rub pulegium into vinegar and into
water, give
the man to drink, soon the soreness glideth away.
Ixx.
1. For wamb wark ; drench in pulegium, and
let him drink it and bind some to his navel, and let
him earnestly beware that the wort do not glide
away. Soon he will be well.
' Not mentioned ; to be supplied 1 * The liquid is not mentioned,
from above.