For the Water-Elf Disease

Dobbie, 1942 124-5; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).
 
Gif mon biþ on wæterælfadle, þonne beoþ him þa hand-
 
næglas wonne and þa eagan tearige and wile locian niþer.
 
Do him þis to læcedome: eoforþrote, cassuc, fone nioþo-
 
weard, eowberge, elehtre, eolone, merscmealwan crop,
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fenminte, dile, lilie, attorlaþe, polleie, marubie, docce, ellen,
 
felterre, wermod, streawbergean leaf, consolde; ofgeot mid
 
ealaþ, do hæligwæter to, sing þis gealdor ofer þriwa:
 
Ic benne[?] awrat      betest beadowræda,
 
swa benne ne burnon,      ne burston,
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ne fundian,      ne feologan,
 
ne hoppettan,      ne wund waxsian,
 
ne dolh diopian;      ac him self healde halewæge,
 
ne ace þe þon ma,      þe eorþan on eare ace.
 
Sing þis manegum siþum: Eorþe þe onbere eallum hire
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mihtum and mægenum. þas galdor mon mæg singan on
 
wunde.