'Twelfth Night: Duke Orsino \"If music be the food of love, play on\"'

01:08 Nov 5, 2021 4 1

'Video images are from a rare ORIGINAL 1623 FIRST FOLIO held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.  Images are provided courtesy of the Octavo Corporation.  For more Shakespeare Soliloquies and Sonnets visit http://www.theater330.com  Duke Orsino, Act 1 Scene 1 Modernized Spelling and Punctuation:  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. Oh, it came o\'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. 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, nought 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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