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 for three nights, before summer come to town, of each one equally much, and let him work them to a drink in foreign ale, and then on the night when summer cometh to town in the morning, then shall the man who will drink the drink stay awake all the night, and when cocks crow the first time, then let him drink one, and another time when day and night divide, and a third time when the sun upgoeth, and after that let him rest himself. 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.

5. For head ache, rue and dwarf dwostle and a root of beet and woodroffe; take of all equally much, as much namely as with thy fore finger set to thy thumb, thou mayst take hold of, pound them small, and melt butter and remove all the foul part, and put into a clean pan and boil the worts therein well, and wring through a cloth, add oil if thou art able to get it, and smear the mans head where it acheth.

6. A salve for flying venom and for sudden pustules; take a hand full of hammerwort and a hand full of may the and a hand full of way broad and roots of water dock, seek those which will float, of that however, least, and one eggshell full of clean honey, then take clean butter, let him who will help to work up the salve, melt it thrice: let one sing one mass over the worts, before they are put together and the salve is wrought up.