Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2009
1.1 Leechdoms, ed. Cockayne II, 348-50: ‘Gif him biþ ælfsogoþa him beoþ þa eagan geolwe þær hi reade beon sceoldon. Gif þu þone mon lacnian wille þænc his gebæra 7 wite hwilces hades he sie; gif hit biþ wæpned man 7 locað up þonne þu hine ærest sceawast 7 se andwlita biþ geolwe blac, þone mon þu meaht gelacnian adtæwlice gif he ne biþ þær on to lange; gif hit biþ wif 7 locað niþer þonne þu hit ærest sceawast 7 hire andwiita biþ reade wan, þæt miht eac gelacnian gif hit bið dægberne leng on þonne XII monaþ 7 sio onsyn biþ þyslicu þonne meaht þu hine gebetan to hwile 7 ne meaht hwæþere æltæwlice gelacnian. Writ þis gewrit: Scriptum est rex regum et dominus dominantium. byrnice. beronice. luslure. iehe. aius. aius. aius. Sanctus. Sanctus. Sanctus. dominus deus Sabaoth. amen. alleluiah. Sing þis ofer þam drence 7 þam gewrite: Deus omnipotens, pater domini nostri ihesu christi, per inpositionem huius scriptura expelle a famulo tuo N. omnem impetuum castalidum de capite. de capillis. de cerebro. de fronte. de lingua, de sublingua. de guttore. de faucibus. de dentibus. de oculis. de naribus. de auribus. de manibus. de collo. de brachiis. de corde. de anima. de genibus. de coxis. de pedibus. de compaginibus. omnium membrorum intus et foris. amen. Wyrc bonne drenc: fontwæter, rudan, saluian, cassuc, draconzan, þa smeþan wegbrædan niþewearde, feferfugian, diles crop, garleaces.III. clufe, finul, wermod, lufestice, elehtre, ealra emfela, writ. III. crucem mid oleum infirmorum 7 cweð pax tibi.
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