The bard said that music strenghthens love
- Emily Bilman
- Apr 24, 2016
- 1 min read
ACT I SCENE I DUKE ORSINO's palace. Twelfth Night
[ Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending ]
DUKE ORSINO
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 south,
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 capacity10
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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