Chapter XXXII: Act I: SCENE 1. Page 6

EGE. Happy be Theseus, our renowned _duke_.

This is in reality no "misapplication of a modern title," as Mr. Steevens conceived, but a legitimate use of the word in its primitive Latin sense of _leader_; and so it is often used in the Bible. Not so the instance adduced of _sheriffs of the provinces_, which might have been avoided in our printed bibles. Wicliffe had most properly used _prefectis_. Shakspeare might have found _Duke_ Theseus in the _book of Troy_, or in Turbervile's _Ovid's Epistles_. See the argument to that of Phædra to Hippolytus.

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THE. You can endure the livery of a _nun_,
For aye to be in shady _cloister_ mew'd.

The threatening to make a nun of poor Hermia is as whimsical an anachronism as any in Shakspeare.

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LYS. Making it _momentany_ as a sound.

_Momentany_ and _momentary_ were indiscriminately used in Shakspeare's time. The former corresponds with the French _momentaine_.