By one that lookes on Feeders? Johnson, by an obliquity that will sometimes befall the keenest, supposed that this refers to Thidias, and that Anthony was abused by a man who looked on while others were feeding; consequently he paraphrased the words by: ‘one that waits at the table while others are eating,’ which is true enough if the words are taken literally, but the ‘one that looks on’ (that is, looks on with favour) is Cleopatra, and ‘feeders’ are servants. When Corin offers to establish Rosalind and Celia in their cottage he says, ‘I will your very faithfull Feeder be.’—As You Like It, II, iv, 105.—Ed.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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