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guests Theobald: What ‘guests’ was the Queen to know of? Antony was to fight again on the morrow; and he had not yet said a word of marching to Alexandria, and treating his officers in the palace. We must restore, as Mr Warburton likewise prescribes, ‘our gests,’ i. e. res gestæ; our feats, our glorious actions. It is a term that frequently occurs in Chaucer; and, after him, in Spenser; nor did it cease to be current for some time after our Author's days.—Johnson: Antony, after his success, intends to bring his officers to sup with Cleopatra, and orders notice to be given of their guests.—[Collier's MS also gives gests, and for a time received the credit therefor. Whether or not the MS Corrector anticipated Theobald is not here open to question. The credit is to be given to him by whom the emendation was first published. The Text. Notes show how emphatic is the preference of the best editors for Theobald's happy change.—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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