Described Hardwick & Luard: i.341.

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To dostrie vermyn take quyk syluer and medul it weel with grece til the quik siluer be al queynt and no þing þerof seyn by itself and þenne put þerto powdre of stafsacre and medle it wel þerwiþ and take þanne a gridil of wollen cloþ as long as it may be sewed a bowte his body in stede of a paunchez and of ij ynches of brede and strike on þat cloþ þe white of an ey not broken to kepe it þat it synke not in to þe cloþ and ley þe mater þer upon not ful þik for it wil drop awey þanne and sewe aboue þat lynnen cloþ as brod and as longe as þe wollen cloþ is and þat schal be next þe body.

Recipe for destroying lice.

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For to make a water for yʒen take fenel rue eufrese verueyne tramentille betoyne reed roose sol sicle oculus christi checkenwede pympernolle celedoyne filago vyneleeues smalache egrymoyne wodebynde of yche ilyche myche and stampe hem alityle and ley hem in þe first daye in white wyne þe secounde day in a knaue childis pisse þat is a mayden þe þrydde day in womans mylke þe fourþe day in goode hony and þanne stille hem in a stillatori and kepe þat watir in a glassen vesselle for þis is a precious watir of alle wateris for alle þe yuelis in þe yʒen.

Recipe for an eyewash. By the hand of the main scribe.

s. xiii.