“Twelfth Night.”
Act i. sc. 1. Duke's speech:—
... “So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical.”
Warburton's alteration of is into in is needless. “Fancy” may very well be interpreted “exclusive affection,” or “passionate preference.” Thus, bird-fanciers; gentlemen of the fancy, that is, amateurs of boxing, &c. The play of assimilation,—the meaning one sense chiefly, and yet keeping both senses in view, is perfectly Shakespearian.
Act ii. sc. 3. Sir Andrew's speech:—
An explanatory note on Pigrogromitus would have been more acceptable than Theobald's grand discovery that “lemon” ought to be “leman.”
Ib. Sir Toby's speech (Warburton's note on the Peripatetic philosophy):—