'Of my obscured course—and shall find time
From this enormous state—seeking to give
Losses their remedies.—All weary &c.'
Steevens (1773) gives as his own conjecture what Jennens had already published.
Singer (ed. 1) read thus:
'Of my obscured course; and shall find time
From this enormous state,—seeking,—to give
Losses their remedies:—All weary &c.'
Dr Delius adopts nearly the same punctuation:
'Of my obscured course; and shall find time
From this enormous state,—seeking to give
Losses their remedies—All weary &c.'
He supposes that Kent overcome with drowsiness leaves his sentences unfinished. Mr Bailey (On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings, &c. II. 91) proposes to read:
'and shall find balm
For this enormous state, seeking to give
Losses their remedies &c.'