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Rh " Then work up a drink thus; font water, rue, sage, cassuck, dragons, the netherward part of the smooth waybroad, feverfue, a head of dill, three cloves of garlic, fennel, wormwood, lovage, lupin, of all equal quantities; write a cross three times with the oil of unction, and say, "" Then take the writing, describe a cross with it over the drink, and sing this over it, "" here insert the name, and the Credo, and Paternoster. Wet the writing in the drink, and write a cross with it on every limb, and say, "" If it listeth thee not to take this trouble, bid the man himself, or whomsoever he may have nearest sib to him, to do it, and let him cross him as well as he can. This craft is powerful against every temptation of the fiend.

If a men is in the water elf disease, then are the nails of his hand livid, and the eyes tearful, and he will look downwards. Give him this for a leechdom; everthroat, cassuck, the netherward part of fane, a yew berry, lupin, helenium, a head of marsh mallow, fen mint, dill, lily, attorlothe, pulegium, marrubium, dock, elder, fel terræ, or lesser centaury, wormwood, strawberry leaves, consolida; pour them over with ale, add holy water, sing this charm over them thrice:—

I have wreathed round the wounds the best of healing wreaths,