Liber cure cocorum / Copied and edited from the Sloane ms. 1986 by Richard Morris.
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Liber cure cocorum / Copied and edited from the Sloane ms. 1986 by Richard Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Here endeS oure cure, pat I of spake, Of potage, hasteletes, and mete [ibake] And sawce per to, with oiite lesyng, Cryst mot our sowles to hevene bryng. Explicit hie quartus passus. Of petecure I wylle preche; What falles per to ^ow Avylle I teche; Fore pore menne pys crafte is tolde pat mowon not have spysory, as pay wolde; For hit is nede to gode, to ken men gode As wele pe pore as ryche by po rode; perfore to telle you I am set, Fyrst what herb^, with owtene let, Ben gode to potage I wolle ^ow lere; pou take pe crop of po rede brere. Rede nettel crop, and avans also, po prymrol, violet, pou take perto Town cresses, and cresses pat growene in flode, Clarray saveray and tyme gode wone, Fersoley, wortes, oper herbj mony wone; Alle pese erbs pou no^t forsake. But lest of prymrol pou shalle take. Rede cole hane parte of potage is. Fro luny to Sayn lame tyde, iwys, penne leve his stade to Myjellis eve. And pen bygynnys hit to releve; pen poroughe pe wyntur his curse schal holde, Neghe lentone seson pat porray be bolde. For stondand fygnade. Fyrst play ^ py water with hony and salt, Grynde blanchyd almondes I wot pou schalle; purghe a streynour pou shalt horn streyne, With pe same water pat is so dene. ^ boil.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30565364_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
