Book 9: Hymn 8: A charm for the cure of various diseases connected with Consumption

1Each pain and ache that racks the head, earache, and erysipelas,. All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell. 2From both thine ears, from parts thereof, thine earache, and the throbbing pain, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell. 3So that Consumption may depart forth from thine ears and from. thy mouth, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell. 4The malady that makes one deaf, the malady that makes one blind, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell. 5The throbbing pain in all thy limbs that rends thy frame with fever-throes, All malady that wrings thy brow we charm away with this our spell. 6The malady whose awful look makes a man quiver with alarm, Fever whom every Autumn brings we charm away with this our spell. p. a380 7Disease that creeps about the thighs and, after, reaches both the groins, Consumption from thine inward parts we charm away with this our spell. 8If the disease originates from love, from hatred, from the heart, Forth from the heart and from the limbs we charm the wasting malady. 9The yellow Jaundice from thy limbs, and Colic from the parts within, And Phthisis from thine inward soul we charm away with this

And Phthisis from thine inward soul we charm away with this our spell. 10Let wasting malady turn to dust, become the water of disease. I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee. 11Forth from the hollow let it run, and rumbling sounds from thine inside. I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee. 12Forth from thy belly and thy lungs, forth from thy navel and thy heart. I have evoked the poison taint of all Consumptions out of thee. 13The penetrating stabs of pain which rend asunder crown and head, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not. 14The pangs that stab the heart and reach the breast-bone and connected parts, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not. 15The stabs that penetrate the sides and pierce their way along the ribs, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not. 16The penetrating pangs that pierce thy stomach as they shoot across, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not. 17The pains that through the bowels creep, disordering the inward parts, Let them depart and pass away, free from disease and harming not. p. a381 18The pains that suck the marrow out, and rend and tear the bones apart, May they speed forth and pass away, free from disease and harming not. 19Consumptions with their Colic pains which make thy limbs insensible I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee.

20Of piercing pain, of abscesses, rheumatic ache, ophthalmia— I have evoked the poison-taint of all Consumptions out of thee. 21I have dispelled the piercing pains from feet, knees, hips, and hinder parts, And spine, and from the neck and nape the malady that racked the head. 22Sound are the skull-bones of thy head and thy heart's beat is regular. Thou, Sun, arising with thy beams hast chased away the head's disease, hast stilled the pain that racked the limbs.