And I ferve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : In those freckles live their favours: Puck. The king doth keep his revels here to night; Because that she, as her attendant, hath But fhe, per-force, withholds the loved boy, By fountain clear, or fpangled ftar-light' fheen, S But they do fquare; that all their elves, for fear, morbs]-verdant circles on the ground, where fairies dance. n penfioners]-compofe her train or retinue; band or guard of pen. fioners, prime favourites. • In their gold coats fpots you fee ;] "A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops "I' th' bottom of a cowflip." Plob]-looby, lubber. CYMBELINE, A&t II, S. 2. Jack. 4 changeling]-usually applied to the child faid to be left by the fairies, here to that taken away. fheen,]-gay, bright. 8 fquare ;]-jar, quarrel, difagree. "Mine honesty and I begin to square." ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A& III, S. 11. Eno. Fai. Either I mistake your shape and making quite, X "And fometimes make the breathlefs housewife churn Puck. I am, thou fpeak'ft aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. Robin-goodfellow :]-or Puck, a mischievous fprite, fond of creating domestic confufion; employed by Oberon to detect the intrigues of Titania. quern, Skim milk; and fometimes labour in the Y aunt,]-crone, old woman; bawd, trull. "Are fummer fongs for me and my aunts.” WINTER'S TALE, A&t IV, S. 2. Aut. z taylor cries,]—an old exclamation on a person's flipping beside his chair, who then refembles a taylor fquatting on his board-And tail-fore cries—And rails, or cries. VOL. II. C And And waxen in their mirth, and 'neeze, and fwear, A merrier hour was never wafted there. But make room, fairy, here comes Oberon. Fai. And here my miftrefs:-'Would that he were gone! Enter Oberon, king of Fairies at one door with his train, and the queen at another with hers. Ob. Ill met by moon-light, proud Titania. Queen. What, jealous Oberon? Fairy, fkip hence; Ob. Tarry, rash wanton; Am not I thy lord? d Ob. How can't thou thus, for fhame, Titania, Glance at my credit with Hippolita, Knowing I know thy love to Thefeus? с Didft thou not lead him through the glimmering night From Periguné, whom he ravifhed? And make him with fair Ægle break his faith, With Ariadne, and Antiopa? Queen. These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, fince that middle fummer's fpring, g That they have over-borne their continents:— m No night is now with hymn, or carol bleft:- f that middle fummer's fpring.]-the beginning of that midfummer, when our quarrel first commenced. "As flaws congealed in the Spring of day." HENRY IV, Part 2, A&t IV, S. 4. K. Henry, * pelting]-paltry, infignificant. "Poor pelting villages." LEAR, Act II, S. 3. Edg. b continents :]-banks. i nine-mens' morris]-a rural game, on a plot of ground, mark'd out in the form of a chefs-board, play'd with wooden pegs and ftones, in which each party had nine men ;-or the place where the Morifco, or maurice-dance was wont to be performed by nine perfons. * quaint]-nice, exact, curious. human mortals]-fo called to diftinguish mankind from fairies, a class of beings between men and spirits. winter here;]-their accustomed winter, that festivity with which it was wont to be celebrated-winter cheer. C 2 Pale P Pale in her anger, "washes all the air, From our debate, from our diffention; Ob. Do you amend it then; it lies in you: Why fhould Titania crofs her Oberon? I do but beg a little changeling boy, t The fairy land buys not the child of me. afbes]-impregnates with unwholfome moiffure. • diftemperature,]-irregularity, confufion, perturbation of the eleP chill, thin-hair'd. ments. a childing]-fruitful, bearing fruit. increafe,]-their feveral productions. benchman.]-page. t goffip'd.]-chatted. Would |