C. Cowden-Clarke, on the play . .

Cowslips .
Coy .
Crab .
Crazed title .
Crown .
Cruel .
Cry of hounds, must be musical .
Cue .
Curst .
D final and e final, confounded . .
Daly’s production .
Daniel, on Duration of Action . ,
Darkling .
Deep, the .
Deere expence .
Demetrius, meaning of .
PAGE
Desire you of more . . 129
Detest = something spoken ... 170
Dew, derived from the moon . . 130
Dewberries . 128
Dian’s bud . 181
Diana of George of Montemayor . 283 Die the death, i. e. a legal death . . n
Die upon the hand . 97
Distemperature . 67
Distill’d . 13
Doctor Dodypoll . 253
Door, in stage-directions . 45
Double comparatives . 114
Double negative . 94
Dowager . 6
Dragons, Night’s . 164
Duke, a title . 9
Duration of the Action . 296
E and d final, confused . 186
E and ie final, confused . 202
E final, confused with er . 29
Eagles . 60
Eare, qu. hair? . 26
Earthlier happy . 12
Eate, present and preterite .... 1 1 2
Edict, accent . 21
Edinburgh Review , on the play . . 304
Egeus, trisyllable . 9
Eglantine . 98
Eight and six . 1x5
Eke . 120
Ellipsis of it is . . . . x x
Elze, the play as a Masque .... 326
English Criticisms . 300
Ephemerides, in aid of the date . . 262
Epic element . 72
Essex’s marriage . 261
Estate unto . 15
Ethiope . . 155
Even but now . 153
Evils, progeny of . 69
Eye-lid . 108
Eyes of the glow worm . 128
Eyne . 31
Faerie Queene, its date . 255
Faerie Queene , extracts from . . . 287
PAGE
17
5°
269
141
247
186
68
67
133
250
102
298
336
162
3°7
20
29
7
H4
10
35
105
230
141
202
202
63
59
332
i74
3°7
48
173
55
14
67
209
187
118
160
186
33i
297
109
137
32
no
INDEX
353
PAGE
PAGE
framing, meaning .
9
Grammatical blunders not comical
• 35
Faint, meaning .
12
Green as leeks .
. 233
Fair posterity .
183
Greene’s James IV .
Fairies’ rhythm .
171
Gregory Nazianzen .
. 149
Fairy Queen, The .
340
Grey = russet .
. 168
Fairy skip .
58
Griffin .
. 96
Fall, used transitively ....
2x6
Grow to a point .
• 34
Fancy . 21, 141
190
Fancy free . . . . . .
74
Hair, pronunciation .
Favour = fe attire .
25
Halliwell on ‘ Bottom the Weaver ’
• 335
Fear, pronunciation .
109
Halliwell on Duration of Action
. 296
Fell, noun .
224
Harbinger .
. 165
Fell and wrath .
5°
Harp .
Fenton, performance at Sadlers
Harry Goldingham .
Wells .
331
Hath, with plural antecedent . .
• 63
Field-dew .
241
Hazlitt, on Bottom .
• 3i5
Fleay, on Duration of Action .
. .
297
Hazlitt, on the play .
. 299
Flewed .
186
Head, to his = to his face ....
• i5
Flouriets .
180
Hear — as to hear . .
Following .
7i
Hecate, the triple .
• 237
Fond .
109, 160
Henchman .
. 70
Fontane, Kean's production . .
. •
331
Heraldry, coats in .
. 151
For — or regards .
16
Heraud, on Bottom .
. 318
Fore-done .
236
Her shewes for shewes her . . .
. no
Forman, Dr. Simon .
252
He that .
• 53
Forth — from .
22
His and this interchanged . . .
. 181
Forty, used indefinitely ....
92
His, supplanting this .
• 32
Friends (Qq), merit (Ff) . . .
19
Hitchcock, on the play .
. 308
Fumivall, on the play ....
3x0
Hold or cut bowstrings .
. 44
Fumivall, on Duration of Action .
297
Honisuckle .
. 177
Hot ice .
Gale’s Pyrramus and Thisbe
. .
255
Hounds of Sparta .
. 186
Game —jest .
31
Hudson, on the play .
• 3”
Gate .
235. 241
Hudson, on Bottom .
. 321
Gaude or gawde .
XC
, 190
Human mortals .
• 65
German Criticisms .
222
Hung upon with love .
• 153
Gervinus, on the play ....
223
Hyems .
• 67
Girdle round the earth ....
91
Glance .
60
Icie .
- 67
Gleek .
126
lie — I'd .
Glimmering .
139
Immediately, in a legal sense . .
. 10
Glow-worm’s eyes .
128
Impeach .
• 95
Godwin, on Costume .
333
In — into .
. 132
Golding s Pyramus and Thisbe
. .
273
In — within .
Goldingham, Harry .
116
Increase .
. 69
Gossip’s bowl .
55
Injury .
. 72
Go tell, go seek, &c .
31
Intend —pretend . .
Grain, purple in .
41
Intents . . . . .
. 208
23
354
INDEX
PAGE
Interchanged . 105
Invisible . 92
It, used indefinitely . 238
James IV, Greene’s . 278
Jewel . 193
John Spencer . 338
Jowl . 162
Juggler, a trisyllable . 158
Juvenall . 120
Kean’s production . 331
Kill-curtesy . 107
King’s, Dr, Lectures at York ... 251
Kissing cherries . 145
Klein’s Intrighi d’Amore .... 286
Knight, on Costume . 332
Knight's Tale, Chaucer’s . 269
Knot-grass . 161
Kreyssig, on the play . 326
Lack-love . 107
Lanthome . 226
Latch . 136
League = mile . 22, 42
Learning late deceas’d . 256
Leeks, green as . 233
Legal terms .... 10,11,14,15,140
Leviathan . 91
Limander . 220
Lime . 215
Line omitted in Folio . 162
Lingers, used actively . 5
Lion at a royal christening .... 115
Loadstar . 25
Lob . 49
Lodge’s Wits Miserie . 254
Loffe . 56
Loosed . 74
Lordship — authority . 14
Love and low interchanged . ... 18
Love-in-idleness . 74
Lover’s fee . 143
Loves, of all . 113
Luscious . 98
Lysander’s complaint and Adam’s in Milton . 18
PAGE
Maginn, on Bottom ....... 316
Man i’ th’ Moon . 226
Man pronunciation . 100
Margent . 62
Marshall, on the play . 322
Marvellous . 174
May = can . 200
May-pole . 159
Mazed . 69
Mazes . 64
Means . 232
Mechanicals, as actors . 35
Melodie, pronunciation . 26
Melted . 191
Mendelssohn’s music, first perform¬ ance . 33c
Merit (Ff) friends (Qq) . 19
Me-thinks, accent . 192
Middle-sectional rhyme . 164
Middle summer’s spring . 61
Mile = league . 22, 42
Mimmick . 132
Minimus . 161
Misgraffed . 19
Mispris’d mood . 139
Misprision . 141
Modesty . u
Momentary = momentany . 20
Montemayor’s Diana . 283
Moon, the source of dew ..... 130
Moon’s sphere . 45
Moral . 221
More better . 114
Morning’s love . 165
Murrion . 63
Morris, nine men’s . 63
Mortals . 65
Moth , pronunciation . 127
Mounsieur . 173
Moused . 227
Music still . 182
Musk roses . 98
My, used instead of mine . 26
Neafe . 174
Nearly, transposed . 16
Nedar . 15
INDEX
355
PAGH
PAGB
Needle, tnonosvllable . . ,
Persever, accent .
1 54
Neeze .
Personage .
159
Newts .
Persuasion = opinion .
21
Night-rule .
Pert .
7
Nine-mens-Morris .
• 63
Perverted season, an indication of
Nole .
date .
249
Notable Performances . . .
• 329
Peter Squentz .
335
Nought and naught .
. 197
Petty .
63
Now bent, or new bent ....
Phillida .
59
Nun, early application to a woman . 12
Philostrate, trisyllable ....
7
is uptial .
15, 208
Pilgrimage .
12
Plain-song .
124
Oberon, in 1591 .
Plutarch .
268
Oberon’s vision .
Point, touching the . . .
hi
Observance .
Pomp = funeral .
7,8
Oechelhauser, on stage-production
• 327
Preferred .
199
Oes and eies .
Prefixes dropped .....
163
Of = concerning, about .
Preposterously .
143
Of = resulting from .
. 141
Prey .
112
Of my life .
Princess of pure white ....
145
Of thine or mine .
Privilege of Athens .
256
On = of .
Progeny of evils .
69
Omission of article .
Prologue, his costume ,
212
Omission of as after so .
Puck, a generic name ....
3
Omission of line in Folio ....
. 162
Puck = devil .
2A7
Omission of relative .
Purple in grain .
4i
Orbs .
• 47
Pyramus, pronunciation . . .
215
Orient .
Pyramus and Thisbe .
272
Other, as a plural .
Othersome .
Quantity .
3i
Owe = own .
Queint .
64
102
Oxlips .
Quell .
229
Querne .
54
Pale .
Question =- discourse .
96
Pap, pronunciation .
Quill .
124
Parlous .
Quire .
56
Participles with nouns .
Partition .
Recorder .
213
Patched fool .
• 195
Rent = rend .
152
Patches .
Repetition of vocative .
219
Patience = suffering .
Reremice .
IOI
Paved fountain .
Respect, peculiar use in this play
19
Pearl .
Respect, in my .
95
Pensioner .
. 48
Revelrie, pronunciation . . . .
8
Pepys, on the play .
• 299
Rheumatic .
66
Percy’s Robin Goodfellow . . .
• 293
Rhythm of Fairyland .
171
Peregenia .
. 60
Right and rite .
188
Perkins, Ghostland and Fairyland
3i5
Ringlets .
62
356
INDEX
PAGE
PAG 8
Ripe, a verb .
hi
Spencer, John .
• 338
Robin Goodfellow .
289
Sphere . 47, 73, 1 10
Robin Goodfellow, his mad Prankes
290
Spiders .
. 103
Robinson’s Handful of Delights
. .
276
Spirit = sprite .
45.52
Room, Fairy .
.
57
Spleen .
Round, a dance .
• 71
121
Sport alone .
• 143
Roundell .
IOI
Spotted = maculate .
• 15
Russet =grey .
133
Square, a verb .
• 52
Squash .
S, final, its interpolation . . .
. 29, 192
Stage version, alterations for a . .
. 242
Sad .
183
Stamp .
. i34
Sadler’s Wells, performance at
. •
33i
Stanley’s marriage in reference
to
Saint Valentine .
188
date .
Salt green .
166
Stay . . . stayeth . . .
• 93
Sanded .
186
Steep .
• 59
Savours .
119, 179
Still = always .
. 28
Schlegel, on the play .
322
Stop, a term in horsemanship . .
. 213
Scholl, on the play .
324
Stowe’s account of storms in 1594
. 251
Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft
. •
289
Strange .
Scritch .
236
Strange — stranger .
. 29
Sealing, legal use .
14
Strange snow .
Season, indication of date . .
. .
249
Streak — stroke .
• 99
See — saw .
191
Stretched .
Seething brains .
201
Strings to your beards .
• 199
Self, as a compound .
l6
Study, Steevens’s definition . . .
. 40
Shadows .
242
Subjunctive used optatively . . .
. 106
Shafalus .
220
Swimming .
. 70
Shakespeare and Plutarch . .
. .
201
Swinburne, on the play .
Sheen .
51
Should .
143
Tailour .
• 56
Sickness, like a .
191
Tales .
Sighing expends blood ....
141
Tartar’s bow .
Silly foal .
55
Tawyer .
Since — when . . .
72
Tear a cat .
- 36
Sinister, accent .
218
Tears of the Muses .
Six pence a day .
198
Tender, legal term .
Skottowe, on the play ....
300
That = at which time, when . . .
.
Small — low, soft .
38
That = in that .
Snuff .
226
That = so that .
• 52
So, its omission after as . . ,
• .
12
There is, preceding plural subject
• 197
So = then .
31
Theseus, a sceptic .
Solemnities .
7
Theseus, trisyllable .
Some time =» sometimes . . . •
• .
99
Thick-skin .
Sometimes, sometime ....
S3
Third Quarto .
Sort .
134. 163
This and his interchanged . . .
31, 181
Sound — swoon .
”3
Thisbe, pronunciation . . . . 215,217
Southampton’s marriage . . .
259
Thisne = thissen .
• 38
Sparta, hounds of .
186
Thomson’s Pyramus and Thisbe .
. 276
INDEX
357
PAGE
Thorough bush, &c., and the date . 248
Thou —you . 94
Thrice three Muses, &c . 256
Throstle . 124
Through = thorough . 45
Thrum . 229
Thy heart for my heart . no
Tieck, on Peter Squentz . 336
Tieck’s stage -production . 329
Titania, origin of name . 2
To, gerundial . 97
To, omitted before infinitive .... 71
Tongs and bones . 175
Touch = exploit . . . 139
Touching the point . I It
Trace . 51
T ranslated = transformed . 26
Transported . 196
Transposition of adverbs . 16
Transposition of prepositions ... 165
True love . 104
Two of the first . 1 5 1
Tyring house . 113
Ulrici, on the play . 324
Unbreathed . 208
Uncouple . 184
Unemphatic monosyllables .... 96
Upon the hand, to die . 97
Variation in copies of Q, . 166
Variation in reprints of Fx .... 163
Vaward . 184
Verbal noun, ‘ admiring ’ a . . . . 30
Villagree . 53
Virtuous . 164
Vixen . 161
Vocative, its repetition . 219
PAGE
Voss, on Peter Squentz . 336
Vows so born . 144
Want, verb . 65
Waxen . 57
Weed, a garment . 99, 107
Wehl, first performance in Ber¬ lin . 329
Weiss, on Bottom . 320
Where, disyllable . 97
Wherefore, accent . 157
Whether, a monosyllable . . 12, 45, 140
Whit . 1 14
Whole —solid . 138
Wilson, D., on Bottom . 319
Winter, Daly's production .... 331
Winter, on the play . 3 14
Winter here . 65
With . 104
Without = beyond . 189
Without, locatively . 42
Woelffel, on the Characters .... 325
Women on the stage . 37
W 00, pronunciation . 216
Wood = enraged . 93
Woodbine . 98
Woosel cock . 124
Worm, blind- . 102
Wot . 190
Wright, on Duration of Action . . 296
Yea and yes distinguished .... 194
You and your confounded .... 25
You = thou . 94, 137
You of more . 129
You were best . 33
Zupitza, on abridgement . 204