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attain, nor is it of great importance that he attain it; God will open the eyes of those whom He judges worthy of such gifts. But from the proud and impious crowd of men, He will hide the same.

With this tyropoia cheese-making and butyropoia butter-making completed in the name of the Lord, I begin another work of women and another game of boys, which is a culinary labor, and this tyropoia and butyropoia is merely metallic, and it far excels in the excellence and nobility of what has been described thus far, although it is carried out with the help of that same salt. For without salt, no imperfect metal can be truly improved, as the common title of the art itself testifies, which is known by the name of Alchemy, and denotes nothing but the fusion of salt. However, what salt is to be understood here, I do not say, but I testify only to this: that the transmutations of inferior metals must be brought about through salt.

Since, therefore, this treatise of mine is added as a certain supplement to the previous one on the nature of salts, it is altogether necessary that I employ salts and metals to prepare these condiments of mine, in place of fruits and sugar.

And since the preparations of condiments from sugar pertain not only to the weaker sex but also to the stronger, and yet the operation itself is nothing but a mere washing and cooking, and truly a work of women, we shall bring it onto the stage here under the name of Women's Work and Child's Play in our description.

If we look correctly at the work of women, and