Image 168, fifth book, folio 85b, receipts 153 (contd) to 157
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| a pownde of colloppe honye*, and a pinte of oyle, and put all these | ||||
| into the iuice* of the hearbes, and set them over the fire, and seeth** them, | ||||
| and stirre them well for running over, and tyll they be thicke & well | ||||
| medled* together, then take a gallon of fayre water, and put it into a | ||||
| broade vessell, then take a yarde of linen cloth, called minster* of the | ||||
| strongest for a strayner, then let two holde the sayd strayner of water, | ||||
| then let an other take a ladle, and put the salve into the strayner, and so | ||||
| strayne it into the water, and when it is colde, anoynt your hands either | ||||
| with oyle of May butter*, and so take it up, and make it in rowles** as you | ||||
| thinke beste. | ||||
| 154. To make an excellent oyntement of | ||||
| the aforesayde hearbes. | ||||
| Take all the hearbes beforesayde that you had to make the salve, and shred | ||||
| them as small as hearbes to the pot, then put them into a fayre bras pane, | ||||
| and put to them a gallon of oyle olliffe*, and two pownd of May butter, | ||||
| halfe a pownde of newe waxe, and put all these together in ye panne | ||||
| to the hearbes, and let them stande so nine dayes, and once every day | ||||
| stirre them well together, and at the nine dayes end, take & set them | ||||
| on the fire, and boyle them together tyll they be all melted and well | ||||
| medled together, then strayne them into a fayre vessell, & leave nothing | ||||
| behinde in the strayner that you can get throughe, then put your oile | ||||
| into some sweete pot that hath had eyther oyle, or freshe grease in it | ||||
| before, and so keepe it close stopte tyll you shall have occasion to occupye | ||||
| it, you must make this oyle between May & Bartholomewtide*. | ||||
| 155. A medicine for a pricke or stripe* in ye apple of ye eye. | ||||
| Take the marrowe of a goose winge that hath bene long killed, and | ||||
| put thereof in the eye of the patient: if that helpe it not, then take and | ||||
| put to the sayde marrowe a little newe fastinge spittle*, and temper it | ||||
| well together, and put that into the eye of the patiente, and by Gods | ||||
| grace hee shall have helpe in shorte time. | ||||
| 156. A medicine for a fellon*. | ||||
| Take a quarter of a pinte of good wine vineger, and somewhat more than | ||||
| halfe so much of the crummes of whole white breade, and allmoste so | ||||
| muche honye as the breade cometh to, and seeth them all together on the | ||||
| fire untill they be thicke, and then make thereof a plaister, and laye to | ||||
| the fellon. | ||||
| 157. To make a very good salve. | ||||
| Take nighteshade*, rybworte*, myllfollye*, otherwise called yarrowe*, |
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| smallage*, three croppes* thereof, allso an hearbe that groweth in ye fallow | ||||
| called cudworte*, a few woodbine* leaves, and a few planten* leaves, of | ||||
| of each of all these like muche, then take and beate them all together, then | ||||
| beinge well beaten, strayne them through a fayre clothe, then put | ||||
| thereto a like | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS