of business,bargains will be his. The botanist who repeats it before going into the fields will probably discover some new plant, and the astronomer by nightbe almost certain to run against a brand new planet, or at least an asteroid. It should be repeated before going to the races, to visit friends, places of amusement, to buy or sell, to make speeches, and specially before hunting or any nocturnal goings-forth, since Diana is thegoddess of the chase and of night. But woe to him who does it for a jest!CHAPTER VIII TO HAVE A GOOD WINE AND VERY GOOD WINE BY THE AID OF DIANA He who would have a good vintage and fine wine, should take a hornfull of wine and with this go into the vineyards or farms wherever vinesgrow, and then drinking from the horn say - I drink, and yet it is not wine I drink, I drink the blood of Diana, Since from wine it has changed into her blood, And spread itself through all my growing vines, Whence it will give me good return in wines, Though even if good vintage should be mine, I'll be free from care, for should it chance That the grape ripens in the waning moon, Then all the wine would come to sorrow, but If drinking from this horn I drink the blood - The blood of great Diana - by her aid - If I do kiss my hand to the new moon, Praying the Queen that she will guard my grapes, Even from the instant when the bud is born Until it is a ripe and perfect grape, And onward to the vintage, and to the last Until the wine is made - may it be good! And may it so succeed that I from it May draw good profit when at last 'tis sold, So may good fortune come unto my vines, And into all my land where'er it be! But should my vines seem in an evil way, I'll take my horn, and bravely will I blow In the wine-vau...
