(Barlicfe. 
(1) And, most dear actors, eat no Onions nor Garlic, for we are to utter 
sweet breath.— Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 2, 42. 
(2) He would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown bread and 
Garlic.— Measure for Measure, iii. 2, 193. 
(3) I had rather live 
With Cheese and Garlick in a windmill. 
1 st Henry IV, iii. I, 161. 
(4) You that stood so much 
Upon the voice of occupation, and 
The breath of Garlic-eaters. — Coriolanus , iv. 6, 96. 
(5) Mopsa must be your mistress; marry, Garlic to mend her kissing with. 
Winter s Tale , iv. 4, 162. 
ARLICK has about it something almost mys¬ 
terious that it should be so thoroughly accept¬ 
able, 1 almost indispensable, to many thousands, 
while to others it is so horribly offensive as to 
be unbearable. The Garlick of Egypt was one 
of the delicacies that the Israelites looked back 
to with fond regret, and we know from Herodotus that it was 
the daily food of the Egyptian labourer; yet, in later times, 
the Mohammedan legend recorded that “when Satan stepped 
out from the Garden of Eden after the fall of man, Garlick 
sprung up from the spot where he placed his left foot, and 
1 “ Well loved he Garleck, Oynouns, and eek Leeke.” 
Chaucer, So?npiour, Prologue. 
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