ony oþir þing.

[‘Science.’]

[--How to get its Quinte Essence from Man’s Blood.--]

The science in the extraccioun of þe .5[3] e{ss}encie from blood,

[Footnote 3: 5 for _fifth_, or _quinte_.]

and fleisch, & eggis / To ȝou I seie, þat in eu{er}y elementid 4
þing, þe .5. e{ss}encie remayneþ incorrupte: it schal be þanne
þe moost þi{n}g of merueyle if I teche ȝou to drawe out þat
fro mannys blood reserued of Barbouris whanne þei lete blood;
also fro fleisch of alle brute beestis, and fro alle eggis, and oþ{er}e 8

[Man’s blood is the perfectest work of nature in us, and its
Quinte Essence converts blood into flesh, and works divine
miracles of healing.]

suche þingis. for als myche as mannes blood is þe p{er}fitist werk
of kynde in us, as to þe encrees of þ{a}t þat is lost, it is certeyn
þat nature þat .5. e{ss}ence maad so p{er}fiȝt þ{a}t, wiþoute ony oþir
greet p{re}p{ar}acioun wiþoute þe veynes, it beriþ forþ þat blood 12
anoon aftir into fleisch. and þis 5 e{ss}ence is so nyȝ kynde þat
[it] is moost to haue[4] / Forwhy. in it is merueylous v{er}tu of oure

[Footnote 4: MS. Harl. reads ‘and this fifte beinge so
nighe kinde it is most to haue.’]