General Defense of the Honorable Women's Craft

creatures: Be fruitful and multiply. But where have you seen growth in the nature of all things without constant change of weather, where rain and winds, cold and heat do not play a part? How, however, will you enjoy the fruitfulness of your household, along with the blessing of Isaac which he bestowed upon his son Jacob, that the scent of your children be like the scent of the field that the Lord has blessed, that your spouse be like a fruitful olive tree, and your children like olive branches around the circumference of your table, if the weather of love does not play a part, which cannot exist without pains? Which sometimes with tears instead of torrents of water, sometimes with sighs instead of winds, sometimes with the heat of the zeal of her innate desire, sometimes with the cold of the untiring