Eat onions, and you shall not smell the leek;
If you of onions would the scent expel,
Eat garlic, that shall drown the onion’s smell;
But against garlic’s savour, at one word,
I know but one receipt. What’s that? Go look.”
The last line is left untranslated; in the original it reads,—
“Aut nihil, aut tantum, tollere merda potest.”
(Harington, “Ajax,” quoting Sir Thomas More.)