If a man has water elf disease

his nails are dark and his eyes ooze.

Take feverfew, hassock, the stem of fane,

green lichen from the cross,

lupin, helenium, strawberry leaves

fen mint, dill, and lily

and bind them in a cloth.

Soak the herbs in holy water,

sing a litany, the Credo

and the Paternoster,

then feed him milk and purest water

and sing this out again:

I have bound the strongest bandages

So the wounds neither burn or burst

Or leap or spread or deepen.

May he keep in a healthy way,

And ache no more than it aches Earth.

Write Christ's mark on each limb.

All will soon be well with him.