care these (precious) things, And while gathering I said with care: "Thou who art Queen of the sun and of the moon And of the stars - lo! here I call to thee! And with what power I have I conjure thee To grant to me the favour I implore! Three things I've gathered in the garden here: A lemon, orange, and a mandarin; I've gathered them to bring good luck to me. Two of them I do grasp here in my hand, And that which is to serve me for my fate, Queen of the stars! Then make that fruit remain firm in my grasp. [Something is here omitted in the MS. I conjecture that the two are tossed without seeing them into the air, and if the lemon remains, the ceremony proceeds as follows. This is evident, since in it the incantation is confused with a prose direction how to act] Saying this, one looks up at the sky, and I found the lemon in one hand, and a voice said to me - "Take many pins, and carefully stick them in the lemon, pins of manycolours; and as thou wilt have good luck, and if thou desirest to give thelemon to any one or to a friend, thou shouldst stick in it many pins of varied colours. "But if thou wilt that evil befall any one, put in it black pins. "But for this thou must pronounce a different incantation (thus)": -- Goddess Diana, I do conjure thee And with uplifted voice to thee I call, That thou shalt never have content or peace Until thou comest to give me all thy aid. Therefore tomorrow at the stoke of noon I'll wait for thee, bearing a cup of wine, Therewith a lens or a small burning glass. And thirteen pins I'll put into the charm; Those which I put shall all indeed be black, But thou, Diana, thou wilt place them all! And thou shalt call for me the fiends from hell; Thou'lt send them as companio...
