This passage, which some of the editors have degraded, as spurious, to the margin, and others have silently altered, I have faithfully printed according to the quarto, from which the folio differs only in punctuation.  The passage is very obscure, if not corrupt.  Perhaps it may be read thus: 

  —­Cordelia—­has been—­informed. 
  Of my obscur’d course, and shall find time
  From this enormous state-seeking, to give
  Losses their remedies.—­

Cordelia is informed of our affairs, and when the enormous care of seeking her fortune will allow her time, she will employ it in remedying losses.  This is harsh; perhaps something better may be found.  I have at least supplied the genuine reading of the old copies. Enormous is unwonted, out of rule, out of the ordinary course of things.

II.iii.18 (377,2) Poor pelting villages] Pelting is, I believe, only an accidental depravation of petty.  Shakespeare uses it in the Midsummer-Night’s Dream of small brooks.

II.iii.20 (378,3) Poor Turlygood! poor Tom!] [W:  Turlupin] Hanmer reads, poor Turlurd.  It is probable the word Turlygood was the common corrupt pronunciation.

II.iii.21 (378,4) Edgar I nothing am] As Edgar I am out-lawed, dead in law; I have no longer any political existence.

II.iv (378,1) Changes again to the earl of Glo’ster’s castle] It is not very clearly discovered why Lear comes hither.  In the foregoing part he sent a letter to Glo’ster; but no hint is given of its contents.  He seems to have gone to visit Glo’ster while Cornwall and Regan might prepare to entertain him.

II.iv.24 (380,4) To do upon respect such violent outrage] To violate the public and venerable character of a messenger from the king.

II.iv.46 (380,7) Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way] If this be their behaviour, the king’s troubles are not yet at an end.

II.iv.70 (381,9) All that follow their noses are led by their eyes, but blind men; and there’s not a nose among twenty, but can smell him that’s stinking] There is in this sentence no clear series of thought.  If he that follows his nose is led or guided by his eyes, he wants no information from his nose.  I persuade myself, but know not whether I can persuade others, that our author wrote thus:—­“All men are led by their eyes, but blind men, and they follow their noses; and there’s not a nose among twenty but can smell him that’s stinking.”—­Here is a succession of reasoning.  You ask, why the king has no more in his train? why, because men who are led by their eyes see that he is ruined; and if there were any blind among them, who, for want of eyes, followed their noses, they might by their noses discover that it was no longer fit to follow the king.

II.iv.83 (382,2)

  But I will tarry; the fool will stay,
  And let the wise man fly;
  The knave turns fool, that runs away;
  The fool no knave, perdy]