Johnson’s Error
The great lexicographer in dealing with the word Confection has the following:
“Of best things then what world shall yield confection,
To liken her?”
—Shakespeare.
If we may trust the concordances, there is nothing of the sort in the works of Shakespeare. In Latham’s edition of the Dictionary it is omitted. Johnson can hardly be charged with inventing quotations; but he often trusted his memory in a very haphazard fashion.