i2 4 SHAKESPEARE'S [GALL. 



Gall. 



Let there be gall enough in thy ink. 



TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 2, 52. 



THERE breedeth on the leaves [of the oak] a manner 

 thing sour and unsavoury. And physicians call it Gall. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet\ bk. xviii. 134. 



IF the inner part of the Gall be taken and put on a 

 decayed tooth, it allays the pain of it. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 206. 



Garlic. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iv. 2, 43. 

 WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 162. 



MEN that must needs pass by stinking places, or make 

 clean uncleanly rotten places, arm and defend themselves 

 with strong sauce of Garlic. Garlic breedeth whelks and 

 wounds in the body, if it be laid thereto. And if choleric 

 men eat too much thereof, it is cause of madness and of 

 phrensy, and grieveth the sight, and maketh it dim. 

 Therein is virtue to put out venom, and all venomous 

 things. Therefore it was not without cause called Treacle 

 of churls. It helpeth best against the biting and venom of 

 a wood hound, if it be eaten with salt and nuts, and with 

 rue. Smape [i.e., pound or crush ; Lat. confer o] these 

 four together, and give oft thereof to the patient, in the 

 quantity of a great nut, and that with wine, and lay the 

 same confection to the sore without, for it helpeth the 

 wound, and draweth out venom, and wasteth it, and 

 keepeth and saveth and delivereth of peril as effectually as 

 treacle. Also it helpeth against the biting of an adder, if 

 it be stamped and laid thereto with oil of bay. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet'}, bk. xvii. n. 



WITH fig-leaves and cummin it is laid on against the 

 bitings of the mouse called a shrew. 



Gerard's " Herbal," s.v. 



GARLIC has so strong a scent that the leopard not being 

 able to endure it, runs away. So that if any one rubs 



