If music be the food of love

William Shakespeare

1564 to 1616

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

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