Thomas Oswald Cockayne

“ A potion for lung disease, boil marrubium in wine or ale, sweeten a little with honey, give it warm to the man to drink at night fasting; and then let him lie on his right side for a good while after the drink, and stretch the right arm as strongly as he is able. Take beet, seethe it in butter, give it hot to the man to eat with the butter; it is the better, the fatter meat he eateth, and if he be able to drink at whiles also the better. ”

“ Take feverfue blossoms and thunder clover blossoms and dill blossoms and hammerwort blossoms and two sorts of wormwood and pennyroyal and the lower part of lily and brittanica and lovage and pellitory, and bring the worts together and boil them in harts marrow or harts grease, and mingle; then put a good much into the eyes and smear on the outside and warm at the fire; and this salve is good for every swelling, to swallow and to smear with, be the swelling on whatsoever limb it may. ”

“ Then work a good poultice thus, take the content of one egg of rock salt, and burn it on a cloth so that it may be burnt through, then rub it to dust, and take then the yolks of three eggs and mingle with the dust, so that it may be so stiff that it will stick well, and let the head of the boil be then opened and the poultice be bound to the swelling as thou needest; then make the man a salve so that it may heal, take stichwort and lupins and red chervil and marche, pound them all together, and boil in fresh butter. ”

“ Against cough and asthma, boil sage and fennel in sweetened ale, and sup it up hot, do so as often as need be. For morning qualms, boil in water eavthgall, sweeten with honey, give the man a good bowl full of a mornino-. In case blood ofush throuoh a mans mouth, take three tremisses [22] a weight of betony and cold goats milk, three cups full of it, and let the man drink, then he soon will be hale. For any mans inward tenderness, let him take waybroad, let him put it into wine and sip the ooze, and eat the worts: it is valid for every inward disease. ”

“ For head pain, boil in water hind heal and groundsel and fencress and githrife, make them reek into the eyes while they are hot, and rub about the eyes with the worts so hot. For head wark; pound roots of beet with honey, squeeze them, put the juice upon the face, let the man lie supine against a hot sun, and hang his head down till the (vertical) axis be reached. Let him have before that in his mouth some butter or oil, then let him sit up straight, and then lean forward, let the mucus flow off his face; do that frequently till it be clean. For a head salve and for an eye salve ”

“ For the ears a noble drink, take the nether ward part of radish and elecampane, the broad bishopwort and hassuck leaves, rue and rose, savine, feverfue; beat all together, pour over them a sextarius full of ale, ere thou touch meat. For lung disease, and pain in breast, take seed of marche and dill, rub down, boil and mingle with virgin honey, add some part of pepper, and make the man eat three morsels at night fasting. For erysipelatous eruptions in the neck, smear them at an early stage with gall of neat cattle, and especially of ox; it will soon be well with the man. ”

“ If the dry rot be lodged in one place, work thus a good fomentation; take ivy which waxeth on a stone on the earth, yarrow, and leaves of woodbine, and cowslip and oxlip, pound them all very well together, lay on a hot stone in a trough, put a little water in, make them reek upon the body as need may be, till the water is cool, put another hot stone in, beathe frequently, soon it will be all right with the man.
43. Against the " dry " disease; lupins, wallwort, woodwaxen, ash rind in the earth, butchersbroom, the hoary wormwood, radish, green hellebore, a little savine. ”

“ If the " dry " rot disease be in a man, make him a draught; take these worts, the nether part of them, fennel and bishopwort, ashthroat, of all equally much, and most of these two, the upward part of rue and betony, souse them with three measures of ale, and let one sing three masses over them, let the sick drink them about two days after they were immersed ”

“ All weeds now may Give way to worts. Seas may dissolve, All salt water, when I this venom from thee blow.
46. Mugwort, way broad which spreadeth open towards the east, lambscress, attorlothe, maythen, nettle, crab apple, chervil, fennel, and old soap; work the worts to a dust, mingle with the soap and with the verjuice of the apple; form a slop of water and of ashes, take fennel, boil it in the slop, and foment with egg mixture, when the man puts on the salve, either before or after. Sing the charm upon each of the worts; thrice before " he " works them up, and over the apple in like manner ”

“ Cardiacus hight the disease in which a man sweat eth excessively; on it one must work up purgative drinks and work him a poultice for the front of his head and for his breast. Take green leaves of rue, scrape them small and pound them thoroughly, and sift barley meal, add it thereto, and sweetened oat, work it into a poultice, and put it on a thick cloth and bind on for three nights and three days, again apply a new one, and let the sick man drink from wrung bramble berries often. ”

“ Work thyself dust enough in harvest and use when need be. Work moreover, a drink of these worts, take seed of marche, dry, and seed of fennel, of parsley, of fieldmore and earthgall, of dill and rue, of colewort and celandine and feverfue, and two mints, that is garden mint and horse mint, and seed of betony, of lovage and alexanders and sage and sclarea and wormwood and savory and bishopwort and elecampane and henbane and agrimony and stonecrop and horehound and nepeta and woodrofie and sanicle and carline thistle ”

“ Work a good draught for the " dry M disease thus; take wormwood and rosemary, agrimony, pennyroyal, the small wenwort, earthgall, eggwort, dry wort, of green hellebore two pieces, of helenium three pieces, of cammock four, of woodwaxen a good deal, and some centaury, scrape the worts into good clear ale, or good foreign ale; let them stand for three nights, wrapped up; give the man a cup full to drink an hour before other meat. ”

“ This is the green salve; betony, rue, lovage, fennel, sage, stitchwort, savine, tansy, roots of comfrey, sclarea, marche, chervil, ravens foot, mugwort, origanum, orache, cinqfoil, valerian, burdock, meadwort, pennyroyal, pimpernel, turnsol, bishopwort, hazel, quince, hedgecliver, groundsel, brookmint, and other mints, chicken meat, sweet gale, hedge hop plant, costmary, earth navel or asparagus, nut beams leaves, laurel berries, cummin, oil, wax. Against . . . disease; take three leaves of sweet gale in boiled milk, give it the man for three mornings to drink. ”

“ In case meat of milk diet turn sour, take earthgall, dry it to dust, shed it into ale or into whatever thou wilt drink, it shall be well with thee. In case a man is not able to sleep, take henbane seed and juice of garden mint, shake them up together, and smear the head therewith ”

“ Take roots of clote, pound thoroughly and boil in beer, give it the man to drink pretty warm, when thou seest that they break out, with Gods help no harm will come.
14. These worts shall serve for a lung salve, bone wort and brownwort, betony and a strawberry plant, southernwood and hyssop, sage and savine and rue, agrimony and hazel, quitch, mead wort, pellitory. Against head ache, boil in water pulegium and leek, mint, fenmint, and the third kind of mint that hath white blooms ”

“ Let the woman who cannot rear her child, then take milk of a cow of one colour in her hand, and then sup it up with her mouth, and then go to running water, and spew out the milk therein, and then ladle up with the same hand a mouth full of the water, and swallow it down ”

“ Gainst nine venoms, and nine flying vile things, Gainst the red venom, Gainst the stinking venom, Gainst the white venom, Gainst the watchet venom, Gainst the yellow venom, Gainst the green venom, Gainst wan livid venom, Gainst watchet veDom, Gainst the brown venom, Gainst the purple venom, Gainst worm blister, Gainst water blister, Gainst thorn blister, Gainst thistle blister, Gainst ice blister, Gainst poison blister, if any ill come flying from east, or any come from north, Or any from west, Over the human race Christ stood over men opposingly. ”

“ Again, for the same; have a great quern stone taken and heated and laid under the man, and have walwort and brooklime and mugwort gathered, and laid upon the stone, and under it, and apply cold water, and make the steam reek upon the man, as hot as he can endure it. ”

“ If wens at the heart pain a man, let a maiden go to a spring, which runs directly eastward, and ladle up a cup full, moving the cup with the stream, and let her or him sing over it the Creed and Paternoster, and then pour it into another vessel, and then ladle up some more, and again sing the Creed and the Paternoster, and so manage as to have three cups full ”

“ There are three days in the year which we call Ægyptiaci, [33] that is, in our tongue, dangerous days; in which, by no means, for no occasion, neither mans nor beasts blood must be diminished; that is the last Monday in April, the first Monday in August, and the first Monday in January. ”

“ Write this along the arms as protection against a dwarf, some crosses and letters, and powder celandine into ale.
52. For wens at a mans heart, take cucumber and radish and the small rape and garlic and southernwood and cinqfoil and pepper in honey unsodden; wring through a cloth and then pepper it, and then boil strong.
53. This prayer shall a man sing upon the black blain or carbuncles, TigaS, and so forth* nine times. ”

“ Sing þonne þærofer, Benedictus dominus deus meus & þone oþerne benedictus dominus deus israel, & mangnificað, & credo in unum, & þæt gebed, matheus, marcus, lucas, iohannes, sy þæt sar þær hit sy, smite mon ða sealfe ærest on þæt heafod.
fol. 141 a. Gif poc sy on eagan, nim mearhsapan & hinde meoluc, mæng tosomne & swyng, læt standan oð hit sy Wið utsihte, genim hænne æg, lege twa niht on eced, gif hit ne tocine, tosleah hwon, lege eft in ðone eced nyhterne, gesleah þonne in buteran, lege in ele, ado þonne hwon ofer fyr, syle etan. ”

“ Scæf efic wið þone bol in meolc, & þige wærlice, & seoð ealle ða in meolce, & hwilum þa meolc geren mid cyslybbe & ðige hy. Wyrc utyrnendne drænc, genim fif & hundeahtatig lybcorna & neogon piporcorn, fiftene sundcorn wel berended, cnuca smale, do sealt in & wyrmelan, mæng tosomne & gnid swiðe þæt hit sy þæt smælste, geworht to duste, genim scæncbollan fulne leohtes beores, oððe hluttor eala wel gesweted oððe gesweted win, mængc ða wyrta þærwið geornlice, læt stondan nihterne, hrer hine eft on mergen þonne he fol. ”

“ Wyrc slypan of wætere & of axsan genim finol wyl on þære slyppan & beþe mid æggemongc [24] þonne he þa sealfe fol. 163 b. on de [25] ge ær ge æfter. Sing ꝥ galdor on ælcre þara wyrta: III. ær he wyrce & on þone æppel eal swa · ond singe þon men in þone muð & in þa earan buta & on ða wunde ꝥ ilce gealdor ær he þa sealfe onde [25] :—
Gif se wynn sy nyper gewend oððe se bledenda fic bedelf ænne wrid cileþenigan moran & nim mid þinum twam handum upweardnes [26] & sing þær ofer VIIII. pater nostra æt þam fol. ”

“ Drænc wið lungenadle, wyl marubian in wine oððe in ealað, geswet hwon mid hunige, syle drincan wearme on nihtnicstig, & þonne licge on ða swiðran sidan gode hwile æfter ðæm drænce & þænne þone fol. 144 a. swiðran earm swa he swiþast mæge. Genim betan, seoð on buteran, syle hate etan mid ðære buteran, a bið swa selre swa he fættron mete ete & gif he mæge gedrincan hwilum hwæthwega ðære buteran. Eft drænc, genim marubian & þa lancgan cliton & wermod & boðen, gearwan, betonican godne dæl, do ealle in eala, syle drincan on nyhtnicstig. ”

“ Gi þin heorte ace [28] nim ribban & wyl on meolce drinc nygon morgenas þe bið sona sel. 7
fol. 167 a. Wið weorh man sceal niman VII lytle oflætan swylce man mid ofrað & writtan þas naman on ælcre oflætan maximianus malchus · iohannes · Martinianus · dionisius · constantinus · Serafion · þænne eft ꝥ galdor ꝥ her æfter cweð man sceal singan · ærest · on ꝥ wynstre eare · þænne on þæt swiðre eare þænne ufan [29] þæs mannes moldan · & ga þænne an mæden man to & fol. ”

“ Dne pee patep omnipotenp etepne beus pana oculop hominip lfuiup • n. picut panafti • oculop piln cobi et multopum cecopum quos bomme tu es oculos [39] cecopum Page:Leechdoms wortcunning and starcraft of early England volume 3.djvu/104 Page:Leechdoms wortcunning and starcraft of early England volume 3.djvu/106 Deus qui dixisti uenite ab me omnes qui laboratis et honerati estis et ego reficiam uos hos famulos tuos laborum suorum premio refice sempiterno; per dominum. ”