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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. 
Gartic 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. 
Cocxs 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. 
Kine Hewry VIIL., 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 
virtue when they be noble and very [#.¢., genuine]. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 48. 
Gilliflower. 
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 Tate, iv. 3, 79, etc. 
