Medicines for the Palsy that take away the Speech

Take Sage leaves and Primrose leaves, and if it be in winter, take leaves, and roots and all, of each a like quantity, beat them together, and strain them with Ale, and give it the sick to drink, a spoonful or two at a time, and it will bring the speech again.

For the Palsy:

Take and stamp [stamp] a handful of Sage, as small as may be, and put thereto two pennyworth of Treacle, and a pennyworth of Aqua-vitae [Aqua-vita]; temper them well together, and lay a plaster thereof to the Wrist [Wrift] of the hand, and in the Nape of the Neck; and thus thou may’st heal him that is lame of the Palsy in short time.

For the Palsy that maketh a man bed-ridden:

Take both the crops and blossoms of broom, and boil [leeth] them in good red wine till it be thick as Ointment [Oyntment], and then anoint all thy body with it, and use this, and it will make thee whole.

An excellent Drink for the Palsie. Protect divers times.

Take the flesh of a Fox new killed, and lay it all night in new Milk, and the buds of Rosemary leaves and flowers, and that great quantity, and half a handful of Harts tongue, and take away the thing that goeth along the back of the leaves, and a good quantity of Bugs, and a few small raisins; seth [seethe/boil] all them together with a gentle fire, and when it is forty days old, drink it fasting; it destroyed the Palsie, and maketh good blood