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Take a toode & starve him to death wth sharpe wyne vinegar pound vppon him in an earthen pot that he may spit out his venome & then poud {sic} \re/ more {v} {illeg} vinegar on him but not vntill he be put in an \a fresh/ earthen pot & after ward let him soeake in the iuice of plantayne or rather herbe of grace a good while & then wash him agayne with vinegar. then you may eate any te of him or still him as yr {illeg} it seemeth

Calendared note from MS Ashmole 329, f. 2v (bottom part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE4606’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE4606, accessed 29 October 2026.