5. I. R. inserts _a_ after _cowe_; this is an improvement.
=58.= 20. _husbandes_] antient Husbandmen. That is, I. R. repudiates the notion as erroneous.
32. I. R. adds--then giue him in a horne to drinke, olde Ale, Saffron, Treakle, and _Diascordion_, boyled together.
34. _by goddes leue_] as writeth Chyron, Phillyrides, and Melampus. A singular variation.
=60.= 1. _dewbolne_] dew-boulne. _Bolne_ = bollen, swollen.
14. I. R. adds--and then with a little Tarre and fresh Butter to cure the wound.
=61.= 4. _ronne on water_] runne and water. The substitution is needless; to _run on water_ means to run _with_ water.
15. _and this_, &c.] to chafe him [_i.e._ to warm him]: and this cure is failelesse, so God be pleased.
=62.= Rubric. _The turne_] Of the turne, otherwise called the sturdy.
3. _for_] of (this use of _for_ being obsolescent).
18. _for perysshynge_, _i.e._ to avoid piercing. _Perish_ for _pierce_ occurs in the various readings to P. Plowman, B. xvii. 189, and Wycliffe, Job xl. 19.
24. I. R. inserts--and anoynt it eyther with fresh butter or clarified Hoggs greace.
=65.= 3. _Starkely_] stakely (a misprint). _Starkly_ is stiffly.
5. I. R. adds--yet if a poore man shall haue such a beast & cannot spare his worke: if he will euery morning or euening bathe his legs with Lynseede Oyle: it shall make him indure his worke, and keepe the beast from any great paine or swelling.
Here I. R. inserts two chapters, as follows.
¶ A soueraigne vnguent to cure the scabbe, itch, botches, or any surfeite whatsoeuer that commeth of heat or pouerty: or by mischance: taken from a most authentique Authour.
Take a good quantitie of the blacke dregges of Oyle, foure penny-worth of Quicksiluer wel killed,[41] as much Brimstone, Pitch, Wax, and Hoggs-grease as will make it thicke like an oyntment: boyle these together, and with it annoynt the beast that is vnsound, and this will vndoubtedly cure him, and that in very short season, if he be diligently tended.
¶ Another most excellent receite, to cure all manner of wounds, impostumes, vlcers, or Fistulaes.
Take the iuyce of the Onion called _Scilla_, take _Hellybor_, and _Bitumen Iudaicum_, mingle these together, and incorporate them in manner of a plaister. The _Macedonians_ and _Gelonians_ to this receit adde the opening of a vaine in the sole of the foote of a beast, and then to giue him to drinke milke and horses blood mingled together, which cureth all inward impostumes, surfeits or poysons, and to the outward griefe to apply the plaister, which was neuer knowne to be frustrate.