... “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.