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The ſingle remark here neceſſary to be made is, that the fact is not ſo. The only authentick copy of this play, the folio of 1623, which is now before me, exhibits the line as I have printed it.
5. Vol. II. p. 477. A Midſummer-Night's Dream.
"Through the foreſt have I gone,
"But Athenian found I none."
"All the old editions (we are again inſtructed) read—find."
Here we have another inſtance of dogmatical and preſumptuous ignorance; and the ſame ſhort anſwer will ſerve. The fact is not ſo. The copy of A Midſummer-Night's Dream, printed by Fiſher, which is in ſome places preferable to that printed by Roberts, which laſt appears to have been followed in the folio, reads—"found I none," as I have printed the line.
The eight reſtorations which I am now enabled to add to thoſe I have already made in the text, are theſe: In Vol. 1. p. 80, I have inadvertently followed former editors in printing "if thou be pleas'd," for—"if you be pleas'd;" in p. 140 of the ſame volume, " more precious," for—"moſt precious;" in p. 155, "I cannot help,"
