Rats away

I command that all the rats that are hereabout

That none dwell in this place, within or without;

Through the virtue of Jesus that Mary bore,

Whom all creatures must ever adore;

And through the virtue of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John,

All four Archangels, that are as one;

Through the virtue of Saint Gertrude, that maid clean,

God grant in grace

That no rats dwell in the place

That these names were uttered in;

And through the virtue of Saint Kasi,

That holy man who prayed to God Almighty

Of the scathes they did

His meadows amid

By day and night.

God bid them flee and go out of every man's sight.

Dominus, Deus, Sabbaoth, Emmanuel, great name of

God,

Deliver this place from rats and from all other shame.

God save this place from all other wicked wights,

Both by days and by nights,

Et in nomini Patris et Filii et Sancti Spiriti, Amen.