Of the fourthe party of þe body. Cam. 53m.

the fourthe parti of þe body be the Ballokis, where superfluytees and yville humoures engendren, and thus thou shalt knowe, thyn appetit shalle wexe cold, and þou shalt wexe roynous on the ballokis, and on þe share. Take than mugwede, [folio 21a] the herbe with the Rote, and put it in good whijte wyne, and of that wyne drynke a litille euery day at morowe, with a litille watir or hony, and ete not ouyr moche. And if þou do not thus, thou shalt haue disese in the bleddre, and thou shalt not Page  32 mowe pisse, and also thi ballokis wolle ake, and in thi bowellis thou shalt be disesid, and also in thi lunges; and there may engendir the, the stone.

I haue redde that ther was a kyng, and [he] made a gret assemble of alle the beste phisiciens in Inde, and in Grece, and comaunded hem to make him such a medicyn so nobil and profitable that ther shulde nede noon othir helpe to mannys hele. The Grekis seiden that who so euyr dranke euery morowe twies his mouth fulle of hoot watir þat it shulde make a man hoole, and þat him shulde nede noon othir medicyne. The phisiciens of ynde seiden that who so ete the graynes of whijt mylle fastyng with watir cresses it profitith moche, or who so ete eche morowe of alibi Amei 7 dragmes, and of swete grapis and Reysynes, he shalle haue no dowte of flewme, and he shalle haue the bettir vndirstondyng, and he shalle haue no quarteyne, and who so etith notes or ffygis with leves of Rewe, that day him thar drede of no venyme. And euyr peyne the to kepe the naturalle hete of thi body, for the distruccioun of thi body cometh of two thingis and two causis, that on is naturelle and þat othir is ayens kynde. The naturalle distruccioun is for the contrariete of complexioun of man, for whan age surmounteth, the body it must nedis noye. And that that is ayens kynde, it cometh of accident aduenture as by swerd, spere, ston, or any case that cometh of seeknes, by yville governaunce, and excesse of metis and [folio 21b] drynkes, for some metes are smale, and some metes are grete, and some are mene. Smale metis engendren good and clere blood, as bred of good whete, Chekenys, Eggis, hennes. Grete metis ben goode for hoot men that travaylen, and namely aftir mete. The mene metis ben goode, for they engendren no swellyng, no superfluytees, noon yville humoures as kedis, lambis, and geldid shepe, for they are hote and moyste, alle though they ben harde whan they ben rostid and hoot in the wombe.