"Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower."

The 4to and folio read or. The correction is Thirlby's.


"Trip we after nightès shade."

Fisher's 4to has 'nights,' of which I have made a dissylable, as being more Shakespearean than 'the night's' of the folio and Roberts' 4to, which most feebly and inharmoniously throw the emphasis on 'the.' This gen. occurs more than once in our poet's earlier plays.


"When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear."

With Hanmer I incline to read boar.


"The woods, the fountains, every region round."