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garlic on any place, the leopard springs away, and does not 

 stay. It drives away serpents and scorpions by its smell. 



Hortus Sanitatis, bk. i. 14.. 



GARLIC being sown when the moon is under the earth, 

 and plucked up when the moon is above the earth, it is 

 said that then his stinking smell will be gone. Garlic will 

 be made the sweeter, if in the planting thereof, you do set 

 the stones of olives round about it. Or else if you set the 

 garlic bruised. 



Lupton, " A Thousand Notable Things," bk. vii. 80. 



COCKS that eat Garlic are most stout to fight ; therefore 

 travellers do often bite thereof, and also such as follow 

 wars ; because it increaseth agility, strengtheneth them, and 

 makes them bold. It is given to horses with bread and 

 wine, at the hour of battle or conflict, to make them more 

 fierce, lively, and to suffer more easily their labour and 

 travail. ibid., bk. viii. 79. 



Gem. 



KING HENRY VIII., ii. 3, 78. 



GEM hath that name for it shineth as gum. Of precious 

 stones some breed in bodies of fowls and of creeping beasts. 

 But from whence-so-ever precious stones come they be 

 found endowed by the grace of God with passing great 



K'rtue when they be noble and very [i.e., genuine]. 

 Bartholomew (Berthekt), bk. xvi. 48. 

 illiflower. 



The year growing ancient, 

 Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth 

 Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' the season 

 Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors, 

 Which some call nature's bastards : of that kind 

 Our rustic garden's barren ; and I care not 

 To get slips of them. For I have heard it said 

 There is an art which in their piedness shares 

 With great creating nature. 



WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3, 79, etc. 



