Sum Practysis of Medecyne
Guk
guk,
gud
day
schir,
gaip
quhill
ye
get
it,
Sic
greting
may
gane
weill
—
gud
laik
in
your
hude.
Ye
wald
deir
me,
I
trow,
becaus
I
am
dottit,
To
ruffill
me
with
a
ryme
—
na
schir,
be
the
rude.
Your
saying
I
haif
sene
and
on
syd
set
it
As
geir
of
all
gaddering,
glaikit,
nocht
gude,
Als
your
medicyne
by
mesour
I
haif
meit
met
it,
The
quhilk
I
stand
ford
ye
nocht
understude
Bot
wrett
on
as
ye
culd
to
gar
folk
wene
For
feir
my
longis
wes
flaft
Or
I
wes
dottit
or
daft.
Gife
I
can
ocht
of
the
craft,
Heir
be
it
sene.
Becaus
I
ken
your
cunnyng
into
cure
Is
clowtit
and
clampit
and
nocht
weill
cleird,
My
prectik
in
pottingary
ye
trow
be
als
pure
And
lyk
to
your
lawitnes.
I
schrew
thame
that
leid.
Is
nowdir
fevir
nor
fell
that
our
the
feild
fure,
Seiknes
nor
sairnes
in
tyme
gif
I
seid,
Bot
I
can
lib
thame
and
leiche
thame
fra
lame
and
lesure,
With
sawis
thame
sound
mak.
On
your
saule
beid
That
ye
be
sicker
of
this
sedull
I
send
yow
With
the
suthfast
seggis
That
glean
all
egeis
With
dia
and
dreggis
Of
malis
to
mend
yow.
Dia
Culcakit
Cape
cuk
maid
and
crop
the
colleraige
—
Ane
medecyne
for
the
maw,
and
ye
cowth
mak
it
—
With
sweit
satlingis
and
sowrokis,
the
sop
of
the
sege,
The
crud
of
my
culome
(with
your
teith
crak
it),
Lawrean
and
linget
seid
and
the
luffage,
The
hair
of
the
hurcheoun
nocht
half
deill
hakkit
With
the
snout
of
ane
selch
ane
swelling
to
swage.
This
cure
is
callit
in
our
craft
Dia
Culcakkit.
Put
all
thir
in
ane
pan
with
pepper
and
pik,
Syne
sett
in
to
this,
The
count
of
ane
cow
kis.
Is
nocht
bettir
iwis
For
the
collik.
Dia
Longum
Recipe
thre
ruggis
of
the
reid
ruke,
The
gant
of
ane
gray
meir,
the
claik
of
ane
gus,
The
dram
of
ane
drekters,
the
douk
of
ane
duke,
The
gaw
of
ane
grene
dow,
the
leg
of
ane
lous,
Fyve
unce
of
ane
fle
wing,
the
fyn
of
ane
fluke,
With
ane
sleiffull
of
slak
that
growis
in
the
slus.
Myng
all
thir
in
ane
mas
with
the
mone
cruke.
This
untment
is
rycht
ganand
for
your
awin
us
With
reid
nettill
seid
in
strang
wesche
to
steip
For
to
bath
your
ba
cod
Quhen
ye
wald
nop
and
nod.
Is
nocht
bettir,
be
God,
To
latt
yow
to
sleip.
Dia
Glaconicon
This
dia
is
rycht
deir
and
denteit
in
daill
Caus
it
is
trest
and
trew.
Thairfoir
that
ye
tak
Sevin
sobbis
of
ane
selche,
the
quhidder
of
ane
quhaill,
The
lug
of
ane
lempet
is
nocht
to
forsaik,
The
harnis
of
ane
haddok
hakkit
or
haill
With
ane
bustfull
of
blude
of
the
scho
bak
With
ane
brewing
caldrun
full
of
hait
caill
For
it
wil
be
the
softar
and
sweittar
of
the
smak.
Thair
is
nocht
sic
ane
lechecraft
fra
Laudian
to
Lundin.
It
is
clippit
in
our
cannon
Dia
Glecolicon
For
till
fle
awaye
fon
Quhair
fulis
ar
fundin
Dia
Custrum
The
ferd
feisik
is
fyne
and
of
ane
felloun
pryce,
Gud
for
haising
and
hosting
or
heit
at
the
hairt.
Recipe
thre
sponfull
of
the
blak
spyce
With
ane
grit
gowpene
of
the
gowk
fart,
The
lug
of
ane
lyoun,
the
gufe
of
ane
gryce,
Ane
unce
of
ane
oster
poik
at
the
nethir
parte
Annoynt
it
with
nurice
doung,
for
it
is
rycht
nyce,
Myng
it
with
mysdirt
and
with
mustart.
Ye
may
clamp
to
this
cure,
and
ye
will
mak
cost,
Bayth
the
bellox
of
ane
brok
With
thre
crawis
of
the
cok,
The
schadow
of
ane
Yule
stok:
Is
gud
for
the
host.
Gud
nycht,
guk
guk,
for
sa
I
began.
I
haif
no
come
at
this
tyme
langer
to
tary,
Bot
luk
on
this
lettir
and
leird
gif
ye
can,
The
prectik
and
poyntis
of
this
pottingary.
Schir,
minister
this
medecyne
at
evin
to
sum
man
And
or
pryme
be
past,
my
powder
I
pary,
Thay
sall
blis
yow
or
ellis
bittirly
yow
ban
For
it
sall
fle
thame,
in
faith,
out
of
the
fary.
Bot
luk
quhen
ye
gadder
thir
gressis
and
gers,
Outhir
savrand
or
sour,
That
it
be
in
ane
gude
oure.
It
is
ane
mirk
mirrour,
Ane
uthir
manis
ers.
Robert Henryson
RoBERT HENRYSON, thc charming fabulist, Chaucer's aptest and brightest schoiar, aimost nothing is known. David Laing conjectures him to have been born about 1425, to have been educated at some foreign university, and to have died towards the ciosing years of the fifteenth century. It is certain that in 1462, being then * in Artibus Liceniiatus et in Decretis Bacchaiarius,' he was incorporated of the University of Glasgow; and that he was afterwards schooimaster in Dunferraline, and worked there as a notary-pubiic aiso.