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[BENEDICTIO POTVS SIVE VNGVENTI.][1]

In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti et per uirtutem dominice passionis et resurrectionis a mortuis ut sanctificentur tuo uerbo sancto et benedicantur[2] omnes fideles cum gustu[3] huius unguenti aduersus omnes nequitias in mundorum spirituum et contra unlitudines et infirmitates que corpus affligunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


  1. The Durham Ritual, p. 116, has nearly the same words. Another Saxon ritual (MS. Cott. Tiber. C.i.) has nothing similar.
  2. benedicentur, MS.
  3. This should be, gustu huius potus vel tactu huius unguenti.