Come what come may.
But to shorten the pain of suspense, he calls upon Time In the usual stile of ardent desire, to quicken his motion,
Time! on! —
He then comforts himself with the reflection that all his perplexity must have an end,
—the hour runs thro' the roughest day.
This conjecture is supported by the passage in the letter to his lady, in which he says, they referred me to the coming on of time, with Hail, King that shalt be.
I.iii.149 (416,1) My dull brain was wrought] My head was worked, agitated, put into commotion.
I.iv.9 (417,3) studied in his death] Instructed in the art of dying. It was usual to say studied, for learned in science.
I.iv.12 (417,4) To find the mind's construction in the face] The construction of the mind is, I believe, a phrase peculiar to Shakespeare; it implies the frame or disposition of the mind, by which it is determined to good or ill.
I.iv.26 (418,5) Which do but what they should, by doing everything, Safe toward your love and honour] Of the last line of this speech, which is certainly, as it is now read, unintelligible, an emendation has been attempted, which Dr. Warburton and Dr. Theobald once admitted as the true reading: