And best of all if tow’rd the worse I dread.

But yet no violence?—

Lord. At most, impatience;

Wearied perhaps with importunities

We yet were bound to offer.

King. Oh, Clotaldo!

Though thus far well, yet would myself had drunk

The potion he revives from! such suspense

Crowds all the pulses of life’s residue

Into the present moment; and, I think,