And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock. And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

She sheared a ewe.

But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.

Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat; neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me.

I am shearing the ewe.

He found her making some cheese of the milk she had drawn from her ewes and he told her the good news.

For lo, the ewe goat was comely in appearance, hence the shepherd knew her twice upon the hill.

Chloe, when she had milked her ewes, and sometimes Daphnis' goats as well, had great difficulty in making the milk curdle, for the gnats were very troublesome and if she flapped them away they stung her.

And thus the lion fell in love with the ewe.

From that time forward he kissed her openly, as if she were already his wife, and not by stealth as he had been wont to do, and he assisted her in all her work, milking her ewes for her, setting her cheese on the racks, and placing her lambs under their dams, as he did with his own kids.