Be goodly thy growth in God’s embrace,
Filled with food as a favor to men.
Then take meal of every kind and bake a loaf as broad as it will lie between the two hands, kneading 80 it with milk and with holy water, and lay it under the first furrow. Say then:
Full be the field with food for mankind,
Blossoming brightly. Blessed by thou
By the holy name of Heaven’s Creator,
85 And the maker of Earth, which men inhabit.
May God who created the ground grant us growing gifts,
That each kernel of corn may come to use.
Say then three times, Crescite in nomine patris, sint benedicti. Amen and Pater Noster three times.