Note XII
II. 2. 163. The first Quarto here reads:
From this enormious state, seeking to giue
Losses their remedies, all weary &c.'
The other Quartos differ only in spelling. The first Folio, followed substantially by the rest, has:
From this enormous State, seeking to giue
Losses their remedies. All weary &c.'
Rowe reads:
For this enormous State, and seek to give
Losses their Remedies. All weary &c.'
Pope followed him, but restored 'From' in the second line, and this reading was silently adopted by Theobald and Warburton, and by Hanmer in his margin. Johnson thinks the passage very obscure if not corrupt. Jennens prints it as follows:
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:
From this enormous state,—seeking,—to give
Losses their remedies:—All weary &c.'
Dr Delius adopts nearly the same punctuation:
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:
For this enormous state, seeking to give
Losses their remedies &c.'
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