If music be the food of love, play on
The first line of the play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. The speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship; he wants an overabundance of love so that he may lose his appetite for it.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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