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"If Music Be the Food of Love"

>_(Song lyrics by William Shakespeare, sung by Jean Belmont in Twelfth Night)_

If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.

That strain again - it had a dying fall:

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,

That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more:

'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,

That, notwithstanding thy capacity

Receiveth as the sea: naught enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soe'er,

But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy,

That it alone is high fantastical.

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