Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis.

  • Stephens, George, 1813-1895.
Date:
[1844]
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Credit: Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    560 Yat hawe I seyn w* eye In gaderynge of betonye. Betonye is ye erbis name And vetonye ike i same. At betonye ende I, And begyne at centory. Centory. In good T clene sothy centory And it be dronkyn xv dayes by T by P. 52. 565 So yl it be mad clere T thynne. Wliat maner veny be man w1 inne, It sclial verely bresty ye flesch And drywy owt ye veny nesch, Ley no thyng ellys to ye wonde 570 Tyll y4 he be heyl and sownde; Sawe i cas yl it be tyde Yl ye wonde be hool T wyde Yane entret yer on do leyn Yl drawyth ye hyde togedere ageyn. 575 Ye odour of centorie T; ye smel Confortyth manys braynys well, Chasyth wockyd huork owt of ye heed Be twyn ye herlus Y ye sched; His flour is whyth, his smel is sote, 580 Golde. For euery soor he may do bote. Golde is bitter in sauowr, Fayr 3elw in his flow ur, Ye golde flo ur is good to sene It makyth ye syth bryth Y clene, 585 Wyscely to lokyn on his flowris Drawyth owt of ye heed wikked huores ; Good is ye lef, so is ye sed, To gryndyn T drynky at gret ned, It wyll be dronky wl whey or wf ale