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Incipit de singlis feris medicamentum
…singlis medicamentum.

[Cockayne, p. 326]
rex King
rex þe egyp (e)tâ [cyning] þe Idpartus wæs hatan Octauiano þan casere hẏs frunde hælo bodede þis wordum þus cweþende: Mæneȝa bẏsnum^[1] ic eom [ȝewis ꝥinra mæȝena ⁊ snytro, ⁊ hwæþere ic wene ꝥ þu næfre to ðus mẏcles mæȝnes læcedomum become swẏlcum swa ic ȝefreȝn ða]^[2] we fram *Æscolapio^[3] ferdon.^[4] Ic ꝥ þa for þinre cẏððe ⁊ þe wurde wẏste þis to ȝewitenne, ꝥ is be wẏldeora læcecræftes.^[5]

^[6]Sum nẏten ys ꝥ man nemned taxonem, ꝥ ẏs *broc^[7] on englis. Gefoh þat deor ⁊ him of cwicun þa teþ ado þa þe he mæste *hæbbe^[8], ⁊ þus cweð: On nama þæs ælmihtiȝon godes ic þe *ofslea^[9] ⁊ þe þine teþ of abe (a)te, ⁊ þanne hẏ siþþan on (in) linne (lineo)non hræȝel (panno)e biwind ⁊ on golde oꝥꝥ on seolfre ō (?) malus homobewẏrc, ꝥ hẏ ue mæȝen þine lice æthrinan. Hafe hẏ mid þe, þanne ne sceþþes þe ne tungol (tonitruum)^[10], ne haȝol, ne strang storm, ne ẏfel man, ne wol-berende *áwiht^[11], ne þe aniȝes [Cock. p. 328]ẏfeles onhrine dered, oþþer ȝif [þe] hwæt ẏfeles bẏd [hraþe hẏt bẏð] tosliten, swa wæs *Abdias^[12] ȝẏrdels þæs witigan. Nim þanne þane *swyþran^[13] fot ðone furþran^[14] þisssun worde ⁊ þus cwed: On nama þas leuiende godes ic þe nime l (to)acedome. Þanne on [swa] ȝehwẏlce ȝeflite oꝥꝥ ȝefeohte swa þu bẏst *siȝefæst,^[15] ⁊ þu ꝥ ȝediȝest ȝif þu þane fot mid þe hafast. Mid his ȝelẏnde smure ða hors þe sinde on

1. ms. bysnum bysnum [sic]
2. ms. ȝe wysȝra ⁊ læcedomes ⁊ become on þusse.
3. *Æscolapio (the capital not in V) ms. æscolupio.
4. The sentence is incomplete as in the other mss.
5. ms. læcecræftef. Sum fuþer fete, the last three words struck off.
6. ms. some illegible words in red in the margin.
7. ms. broce.
8. ms. habban.
9. ms. of slean.
10. ms. tungo tungol (tonitruum)
11. ms. awyt.
12. ms. abbias.
13. ms. swȳrðanan.
14. ms. for furþran.
15. ms. sylefæst.