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, 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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