In the 4tos and folio 'Fairy.' (See Introd. p. [52].)
"When thou wast stolen away from Fairyland,
And in the shape of Corin sat all day."
This is the reading of the folio; the 4tos, which all the editors follow, have hast. I prefer the former; for Shakespeare invariably employs the verb substantive with 'stolen away,' except in the case of a doubly-compound tense.
"The human mortals want their winter here."
Theobald proposed and then rejected 'winter-cheer.' I should prefer summer for 'winter' (see Introd. p. [66]); for in Dr. Forman's Diary of the year 1594—which year Shakespeare had certainly in view—we read, "This monethes of June and July were very wet and wonderfull cold, like winter, that the 10 dae of Julii many did syt by the fyer, yt was so cold; and soe was it in Maye and June; and scarse too fair dais together all that tyme, but it rayned every day more or lesse. Yf it did not raine then was it cold and cloudye.... There were many gret fludes this sommer."
"The seasons change their manners, as the year
Had found some months asleep and leaped them over."