Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson

Of the thridde party of þe body. Cam. 52.

the thridde parti of þe body is þe wombe, many yville humoures cometh therin. And thus shalle thou knowe, thi wombe shalle swelle, and thou shalt ake of stiffenes þat cometh therin, þe knees wexe grete, and thou shalt go hevily and with disese. It bihovith the then to be purgid with sum light medicyne, as y haue seid aboue. And if þou do it not þou shalt haue akyng of thyn haunchis and of thi mylte, and in thi bak, and in thi ioyntis, and disese of þe flixe, and disese of thi lyvir, and yville digestioun.