Originally posted by bigsapling:

Iron Mace, 2 hp foods and a stamina food, poison resist potion.

Pop the potion before engaging as it does nothing if the poison is already in you. You can tank all the poison with the potion, use a shield to parry the one melee attack it has or roll it and deal with the adds as they come.

I prefer to roll. Since H&H, he can do piercing damages (through the shield). Even with a perfect parry, i get about 30-60hp damage with iron shield.
Rolling is safier when you get the pattern ;)