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A HARE’S BRAIN TO BE USED AGAINST OVERSLEEPING,
Wið oferslæpe hara braȝen [on wine] ȝeseald to drince wunderlice hyt beteð. Wið eaȝena sare hara lungane on ȝesetted ⁊ þær-to ȝewrẏþan:
[1] wu
nderlice þat sar bẏð ȝehæled. Wið fot-swulan ⁊ sceþþu
m hara *lung
en[2] ufan ⁊ neoþan toȝewriþen: wunderlice þa gangas beoð ȝehælede. Þan wẏfam þe hẏm hẏra beorðor losie haran heortan adriȝe ⁊ wẏrc to duste ⁊ þriddan dæl receles dustes, sẏle drincan seofan dæȝes on sciru
m wine. Þam þonne *þe
[3] hit oft
[Cock. p. 344]oþfealleð þritiȝ dæȝe ȝe on wine ȝe on wyrtunge. Ðon
[4] þam wifum þe after beorðre on sumu
m stowu
m swincon ꝥ ẏlce do to drencȝe fastende on
warme wætere: sona hit byð ȝehæled. Wið eaȝena dimnesse hara ȝeallen
[5] wið huni ȝemenged ⁊ mid ȝesmired: þa eaȝene ȝebeorhtiȝed. Wið blædran sara hara sẏna ȝedriȝede [⁊ mid sealte ȝebrædde ⁊ ȝehẏrste sceaf on his drinc: wundorlice hẏt hæleþ. Wið attorcoppan bite haran sina ȝeȝẏre] ⁊ him sile ðicȝean; eac hit *is *æltæwe
[6] ȝif hi man hreawe swelȝeð. Eac wið w
æten hi beoð gode ȝesodene. Wið feallendu
m fexe
[7] hara wamba seod oþþ
e bræd on
[8] *pannan
[9] on gode ele,
smere ꝥ fex ⁊ ꝥ heafod: þa
nne nimed ꝥ fex to ⁊ seo sealfe ȝenẏdeð ꝥ hit wexeð. To þan ꝥ wẏf cenne wæpned cẏld hara hrif
[10] ȝedriȝed ⁊ *ȝesceafen
[11] oððer
[12] ȝecniden on drinc drincen butu; ȝẏf ꝥ wif ane hit
[13] drinceð, þa
nne cenþ heo androȝine
m:
[Cock. p. 346]ne byð ꝥ to nahte, naþer ne
[14] wer ne wif. Eft to þan ẏlcan hara sceallan wife *æfter
[15] hẏre clænsunge sile on wine drincan: þan cenþ heo wæpned c
yld. Wid ꝥ cẏldu
m butan
- ↑ ms. ȝewy | wryþan, the second part of the first word underlinded.
- ↑ ms. lungum.
- ↑ ms. he.
- ↑ ms. Da Don, with hars across the second part of the D in both cases.
- ↑ ȝeallen (V has ȝeallan), an error for ȝealla.
- ↑ ms. his ealtewa.
- ↑ ms. fexe feallendum, fexe between two “||”-signs, obviously meant to mark that it is to be placed after feallendum.
- ↑ ms. an?
- ↑ ms. pannum.
- ↑ ms. r i hrif.
- ↑ ms. ȝesceawen.
- ↑ ms. odðer.
- ↑ ms. hit hyt.
- ↑ ms. naþer to ne.
- ↑ ms. afte.