whose Ministers Capell (i, 41, see Text. Notes): That is, ministrations, services administer'd; but what the ‘ministers of coins, ships, and legions,’ may be, those gentlemen should (methinks) have inform'd us, who have let the word stand in their several editions.—[The volume containing this play, although bearing the number 8, was only the second that Capell sent to press. It bears the mark of his 'prentice hand. After more experience, he would not have emended the text, and we should not have had the foregoing note. It would have occurred to him that ‘ministers’ here means the agents who execute the purposes of coins, ships, and legions.—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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