Note to A Midsummer's Night Dream, 2.1.99-100: "the quaint mazes in the wanton green / For lack of tread are undistinguishable"


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Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 99-100.
the quaint mazes in the wanton green / For lack of tread are undistinguishable: the ingenious paths [of mazes used in games] in the luxuriant grass, because no one is treading on them, have faded away.