Chapter XXXV: Act V: SCENE 1. Page 145

PHILOST. ... I have heard _it_ over,
And it is nothing, nothing in the world;
Unless you can find sport in their _intents_,
Extremely stretch'd, and conn'd with cruel pain,
To do you service.

Dr. Johnson suspects a line to be lost, as he "knows not what it is to _stretch_ and _con_ an _intent_;" but it is surely not _intents_ that are _stretch'd and conn'd_ but the _play_, of which Philostrate is speaking. If the line

"Unless you can find sport, &c."

were printed in a parenthesis, all would be right. Mr. Steevens, not perceiving this, has endeavoured to wrest from the word _intents_, its plain and usual meaning, and would unnecessarily convert it to _attention_, which might undoubtedly be _stretch'd_, but could not well be _conn'd_.

SCENE 1. Page 148.

PHILOST. The prologue is _addrest_.

We have borrowed this sense of the word (_ready_) from the French _adressé_.

SCENE 1. Page 157.

MOON. This lantern doth the _horned_ moon present.

But why _horned_? He evidently refers to the _materials_ of which the _lantern_ was made.

SCENE 2. Page 168.

PUCK. By the triple _Hecat's team_.

By this team is meant the chariot of the moon, said to be drawn by two horses, the one black, the other white. It is probable that Shakspeare might have consulted some translation of Boccaccio's _Genealogy of the gods_, which, as has been already remarked, appears to have occasionally supplied him with his mythological information. As this is the first time we meet with the name of _Hecate_ in our author, it may be proper to notice the error he has committed in making it a word of two syllables, which he has done in several other places, though in one (viz. I. _Henry Sixth_, if he wrote that play) it is rightly made a trisyllable:

"I speak not to that railing Hĕcătē."