The makyng of a bathe medicinable

[Fol. 186.]

“Holy hokke / & yardehok / peritory / and þe brown fenelle,

THE MAKYNG OF A BATHE MEDICINABLE.

walle wort / herbe Iohñ / Sentory / rybbewort / & camamelle,

hey hove / heyriff / herbe benet / bresewort / & smallache,

broke lempk / Scabiose / Bilgres / wildflax / is good for ache;

wethy leves / grene otes / boyled in fere fulle soft,

Cast þem̅ hote in to a vesselle / & sett youre soverayñ alloft,

and suffire þat hete a while as hoot as he may a-bide;

se þat place be couered welle ouer / & close oñ euery side;

and what dissese ye be vexed with, grevaunce ouþer peyñ,

þis medicyne shalle make yow hoole surely, as meñ seyñ.”

USHER AND MARSHAL: THE ORDER OF PRECEDENCE OF PERSONS.