who said " if music is the food of love, play on "

[funkymoped]

Someone must have said it, or something like it..

does anyone know ?

[Big Al1st]

Shakespeare wrote it in the " Twelfth Night" i reckon

[scoop1972]

It is indeed Twelfth Night. Here is the text:

SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.

ACT I.

SCENE I. An Apartment in the DUKE'S Palace.

[Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending.]

DUKE.
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 capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soever,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high-fantastical.

[rugeleyboy]

hmmmmm!!

[Big Al1st]

Hey Scoop, Nothing like a bit of culture. Now put it to music. You might have a hit there!