"Sickness is catching; oh, were favour so!
Your words I catch, fair Hermia; ere I go."
For 'your words' Hanmer read 'Yours would,' an excellent emendation, and generally adopted.
"Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
To seek new friends and stranger companies."
'Sweet' and 'stranger companies' are Theobald's corrections of swelled and strange companions. "More certain emendations," says Mr. Dyce, "were never made."