- 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 odor! TWELFTH-NIGHT, Act I, sc. i -William Shakespeare click to enter... ...users.erols.com/wb3v/avas