SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN 
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And if the boy have not a woman’s gift, 
To rain a shower of commanded tears, 
An onion will do well for such a shift. 
Taming of the Shrew , Induct, i. 124 ; 
and again in Antony and Cleopatra, I. ii. 176 : 
Indeed, the tears live in an onion that should water this 
sorrow. 
