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“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!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a0b21ba2bebc5a767d86df77732701ea5fd63708746402dfaf7e4b1d5de264ce
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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