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I. i. 14. Fancy. Love. This use is frequent in Shakspere.
Cf. Merchant of Venice, III. ii. 63-64,

Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?

I. i. 15. That it is the one most highly imaginative state.
I. i. 17. Hart. This pun occurs elsewhere in Shakspere.
Cf. Julius Caesar, III. i. 207-208,

O world, thou wast the forest to this hart,
And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee;

and also As You Like It, III. ii. 260.
I. i. 18. The noblest. I.e., Olivia's.
I. i. 21. Turned into a hart. The allusion, a common one
in Elizabethan literature, is to the story of Actaeon, who,
having looked on Diana bathing, was turned into a stag,
and torn by his own hounds.
I. i. 24. So please. May it so please.
I. i. 26. Element. Air or sky. Seven years' heat. Seven
summers.
I. i. 33-34. That fine frame to pay. So finely constituted as
to pay.
I. i. 35. Golden shaft. The allusion is to a fancy, frequent
in poetry since Ovid, that Cupid had arrows tipped with dif-
ferent metals, those with gold causing love, those with lead.
hate, etc.
I. i. 37. Liver, brain, and heart. According to the old pop-
ular belief, these organs were the seats of the passions, the
reason, and the sentiments, respectively.
I. i. 39. Self. Single. The general sense of the passage
is, "When all her powers and perfections are dominated by
one person, i.e., her husband."
I. i. 40-41. Note that the scene ends as it began, with an
utterance expressive of the Duke's self-indulgent nursing of
his emotions.
I. ii. This short scene carries on the exposition of the
initial situation by introducing the heroine, giving further
details about Orsino and Olivia and their mutual relations,
and providing a motive for Viola's disguise. The later
appearance of Sebastian is also prepared for.

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