II.i.130 (32,6) [Which she, with pretty and with swimming gate, Following]
[cf: follying] The foregoing note is very ingenious, but
since _follying_ is a word of which I know not any example, and the
Fairy's favourite might, without much licentiousness of language,
be said to _follow_ a ship that sailed in the direction of the
coast; I think there is no sufficient reason for adopting it.
The coinage of new words is a violent remedy, not to be used but
in the last necessity.
II.i.157 (35,8) [Cupid all-arm'd] _All-armed_, does not signify
_dressed in panoply_, but only enforces the word _armed_, as we might
say _all-booted_. I am afraid that the general sense of _alarmed_,
by which it is used for _put into fear or care by whatever cause_,
is later than our authour.
II.i.220 (38,4) [For that It is not night when I do see your face]
This passage is paraphrased from two lines of an ancient poet,
--_Tu nocte vel atra
Lumen, et in solis tu mihi turba locis_.
(see 1765, I,118,6)
II.i.251 (39,5) [over-canopy'd with the luscious woodbine] All the
old editions have,
Quite _over-canopied with luscious woodbine_.
On the margin of one of my folio's an unknown hand has written
_lush_ woodbine, which, I think, is right.
This hand I have since discovered to be Theobald's, (see 1765,
I,119,4)
II.ii. (41,9) [quaint spirits] For this Dr. Warburton reads against
all authority,
----_quaint_ sports.----
But Prospero, in _The Tempest,_ applies _quaint_ to Ariel.
II.ii.30 (42.2) [Be it ounce]
The ounce is a snail tiger, or tiger-cat. (1773)