Miko: annotations

The First Quarto has a slightly different wording for this stage direction: Enter Quince, the Carpenter; and Snugge, the Ioyner; and Bottom, the Weauer; and Flute, the Bellowes mender; & Snout, the Tinker; and Starueling the Tayler.

The planet Venus is the third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the sun and the moon.

loyalty or faith

She died in childbirth.

Room in bed. Lysander is saying they can sleep together when they're married.

having no children

imaginary

before

This phrase has led to speculation about what herb Oberon has that overrides the enchantment of the love-in-idleness. Diana was the goddess of chastity, so the plant might be agnus castus, also known as the chaste tree.

told me to go away