If music be the food of love

William Shakespeare

1564 to 1616

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If music be the food of love, play on;
me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
O spirit of love! how and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That alone is high fantastical.