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 immoderate dryness. Work a drink for cough, take mashwort, seethe it in a copper kettle, and boil till it be very thick, and let it be wrought of wheaten malt: then take of everfern most, bishop wort, hindheal, pennyroyal, singreen, put all into a vessel, give to drink at middays, and forego what is sour and everything salt.

113. For cough again, take horehound, seethe in water, give it so warm to the patient to drink. Again, take burdock, some call it foxes cliff, some riverwort, and let it be wrought past midsummer, seethe it in water till

114. 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; do so for nine days, soon it will be well with the man. For heart wark, seethe a handful of rue in oil, and add an ounce of aloes, smear with that, that shall tranquillize the pain.

115. For heart ache, if he have within a strong pain in the heart, then wind groweth in the heart, and thirst vexeth him, and he is without strength. Then work him a stone bath, and in it let him eat southern radish with salt; by that may the wound be healed. For heart ache again, take githrife, seethe in milk, give to drink for six days. Again, the lower part of