ONION

BOTTOM

And, most dear Actors, eat no ONIONS

nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act IV, sc. 2]

LAFEU

Mine eyes smell ONIONS,

I shall weep anon:

Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act V, sc. 3]

ENOBARBUS

Indeed the tears

live in an ONION that should

water this sorrow.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act I, sc. 2]

ENOBARBUS

Look, they weep,

And I, an ass, am ONION-eyed.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act IV, sc. 2]

LORD

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,

Which in a napkin being close conveyed

Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.

—Taming of the Shrew [Induction, sc. 1]