Thus the verses are continued until tetter, having “no brother,” is imperatively ordered to begone.
CHARM FOR THE STING OF A NETTLE.
Many a time do I remember, when a child playing in the fields, having suffered from the stings of the nettle, and constantly seeking for the advantages of the charm of the dock-leaf. The cold leaf was placed on the inflamed spot, and the well-known rhyme three times repeated:—
“Out nettle,
In dock;
Dock shall have
A new smock.”
CHARM FOR TOOTHACHE.
“Christ pass’d by His brother’s door,