The Middle-English translation of Palladius De Re Rustica / ed. by Mark Liddell.

[Vt oleum sordidum purges.] Capitulum decimum nonum.

If oil be foule, taak hoot salt alto grounde, [491 Ms. Rubric incom∣plete. ‖ Ms. Iff.] And kest hit in, and diligently wrie, And in a while al pure hit wole be fonde. And yf hit be not sauered worth a flie, Olyues grene ygrounde in hit let stie, [ 495] The bonys piked out. ffor oon metrete, Too chonykes to kest is mesure mete.

Ther bayes lakke, olyues croppis bray An[d] kest in with. And summe it wol suspende [499 Ms. An kest. ‖ wol] final e erased.] In thoil vessel vntyl the thridde day, [ 500] Inwith a shete; and tho iij dayes spende, [501 shete] Ms. swete, (Lat. intra linteum).] They vessel hit. And other inte hit sende [502 inte] e altered from o.] Old tile maad hoot, and summen in a shete Suspendith barly breed hit forto swete,

And whan they hem ha chaunged twye or thrie, [ 505] [505 Initial omitted by rubricator.] Into other lomes wole they hit translate, And salt vpon [hit] suffisauntly strie. [507 Ms. vpon suffisauntly.] Ek yf a beest in hit be deed of late Or longe, ensclaundryng thodoures state,

In oon metrete an handful coriaunder [ 510] Wol voide away the vile odoures sclaunder.

Horrend odour perchaunce abidith stille; [fol. 127a.] Let chaunge, and putte in coriaunder newe, And chaunge hit ofte vntil hit better smylle, And forto taaste vpon be not eschewe. [ 515] At daies sixe ek best is hit remewe To lomes newe, other to vessel clene [munda.] , With vynegre other with aysel maad clene [recensita recensita (sic).]

And other stampith seedis of feyn Greek, And kest hem yn. Ek summen broondes tende [ 520] Of olyue tre, and in this licour seek Hem quencheth they, the sauour forto amende. Yf hit be sour, let into hit descende That al forbrayed grapis excrement, On ballis maad, in seruyng thyn entent. [ 525] [Vv. 519-525 are partly torn out of B; for what remains see Appendix.]