Note 205 — ACT IV.[188]
Reading edition
[So in Shakespeare's "Midsummer-Night's Dream," act. i. sc. 1—
"O happy fair! Your eyes are lodestars."
Jonson correctly describes the lodestar, or loadstar, as it is less properly called, as "the leading or guiding star." Milton has the same thought in "Allegro"—
"Towr's and battlements he sees Bosom'd high in loftiest trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighb'ring eyes."
Davies calls Elizabeth "lodestone to all hearts and lodestar to all eyes." See also Steevens's note on the above passage.]