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Long poems and plays are referred to by line number; prose by page number.
Shakespeare's plays are quoted from the Arden editions: King Richard II, ed. P. Ure (, ) London: Methuen; A Midsummer Night's Dream, ed. , London: Methuen; Hamlet, ed. , London: Methuen; Troilus and Cressida, ed. , London: Methuen; King Lear, ed. K. Muir (, ) London: Methuen; Macbeth, ed. K. Muir (, ), London: Methuen; The Winter's Tale, ed. J.H.P. Pafford , London: Methuen; The Tempest, ed. F. Kermode (, ), London: Methuen.
The term ‘stool’ had the same faecal connotations in Shakespeare's day as in our own (OED).
Most editors emend the original punctuation of this passage, placing a colon instead of a comma between ‘afire with me’ and ‘the King's son’ because they cannot believe that Ferdinand could be described as being on fire (see The Tempest, p. 23, note 212). This interference flattens the poetry; also it is traditional to be ‘on fire with love’ (as with the cherubim).
Keats, letter to Woodhouse, 27 October 1818, Letters, ed. , Oxford University Press, p. 157.
Milton's poetry is quoted from Poetical Works, ed. , Oxford University Press.