If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die
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From William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1. Duke Orsino asks for an excess of music, hoping to satisfy and extinguish his appetite for love, before reflecting on love’s restless and changeable nature. Verified against MIT’s Shakespeare text. shakespeare.mit.edu