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 25. Work a third thus; boil in butter marche, helenium, radish, the cloved wenwort, hollyhock, a very little wormwood, pound all very well, give them warm to the man to eat, and besides to drink thrice in a day before he eat. A fourth brewit; boil in honey beet or marrubium, give to eat warm.

26. Work previously a drink of the beet alone, boil it in wine or in ale, let the man drink this before he eat the brewit. 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. Again, a drink; take marrubium and the long cleet and wormwood and thyme, yarrow, a good deal of betony, put them all in ale, give them to the man to drink at night fasting. Take fieldmore, pound effectually, lay it in wine or ale, let it stand one night or two, administer it, at night, fasting.

27. Again for that, take sweet gale and marrubium and agrimony; boil in ale; sweeten with honey.

28. Work a brewit thus; boil hyssop in butter, and radish and helenium and barley meal, a large quantity, boil long, give it warm to eat. A gruel; seethe beet in butter and honey thoroughly till it is as thick as porridge, let the man eat at night fasting three bits of it hot. A sleeping draught; radish, hemlock, wormwood, henbane, pound all the worts, put them into ale; let it stand a night; let the man then drink.

29. For a holy salve shall serve betony, and herb bennet, and hindheal, and hemp and raspberry, ironhard, sage, savine, bishopwort and rosemary, fennel and cinqfoil, halswort, horehound, mugwort, mead wort,