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Prepositions were less standardized in Elizabethan English than they are today and so we find several uses in A Midsummer Night\'s Dream that would have to be modified in contemporary speech. Among these are
\"in\" for \"on\":
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
(II, i, 85)
\"upon\" for \"by\":
To die upon the hand I love so well.
(II, i, 244)
\"on\" for \"of\":
More fond on her than she upon her love:
(II, i, 266)
\"against\" for \"in anticipation of\":
And now have toiled their unbreathed memories
With this same play against your nuptial.
(V, i, 74-75)
and \"to\" for \"in\":
In least speak most, to my capacity.
(V, i, 105)
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