816. William Shakespeare. 1564-1616. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	816
AUTHOR:	William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION:	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 1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!
ATTRIBUTION:	Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1. [text]
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:	William Shakespeare Collection.

Note 1.
”Like the sweet south” in Dyce and Singer. This change was made at the suggestion of Pope. [back]