polypody, cookie, plain tain; boil together; give it to be drunk.
116. For angina pectoris; thus must be the leechcraft wrought; so that one take a cup of marred honey and a half cup of clean melted lard, and mingle the lard and honey into a mess together, and boil it till it be as thick as pottage, insomuch as it will get clear by the lard, and let beans be dried and ground afterwards, and added thereto, according to the capability of the honey; and pepper it then, to pleasure.
117. There are three days in the year which we call Ægyptiaci,[1] that is, in our tongue, dangerous days; in which, by no means, for no occasion, neither mans nor beasts blood must be diminished; that is the last Monday in April, the first Monday in August, and the first Monday in January.
118. He who on these three days shall diminish the volume of his blood, be it man, be it beast, as we have heard, shall forthwith on the first day or on the fourth day end his life. Or if his life be longer, he will not reach unto the seventh clay. Also if he drink any medicinal drink on those three days, he will end his life within fifteen days. If any one be born on these days, he will end his life by an evil death; and whosoever on these three days tastes flesh of goose, will end his life within forty days time.
- ↑ The Egyptians were reckoned by Beda good calculators of the length of the year; but these Dies Ægyptiaci are a folly.
