| | He knew alle the hauenes that ther were | |
| 410 | Fro yngelond in to the Capfenester | |
| | And euery cryke in brytayne and in spayne | |
| | His barge was called the Maudeleyne | |
| | W | Ith vs there was a doctour of phisik | |
| | In the worlde was ther non hym lik | |
| 415 | To speke of phisik and surgerye | |
| | For he was groundid in Astronomye | |
| | He kepte his paciente a greet deel | |
| | In hour be magik natureel | |
| | Wel couthe he of fortune the accident | |
| 420 | Of his ymage for his pacient | |
| | He knew the cause of euery maladye | |
| | Were it of cold hete moyst or drye | |
| | And were engendred of what humour | |
| | He was a very parfight practesour | |
| 425 | The cause he knew and of his harm the rote | |
| | Anon he yaf the sikman his bote | |
| | For redy alway be his apotecaryes | |
| | To sende hym drugges & his lettewaryes | |
| | For eche of them made other forto wynne | |
| 430 | Her frendship was not newe to begynne | |
| | Ful wel knew he the olde Estulapius | |
| | And diascorid and eke Platearius | |
| | Olde ypocras . haly and eke Galiene | |
| | Serapion Rasis and eke Auicene | |
| 435 | Anorrois damascene and Constantyn | |
| | Bernard Gatisden and Gilbertyn | |
| | Of his diete mesurable was he | |
