" If music be the food of love, play on"

λεπτομέρεια από "An Angel in Green with a Vielle"

(Francesco Napoletano;)
The National Gallery, London

"Αν η μουσική είναι η τροφή της αγάπης, παίξε κι άλλο." (Σαίξπηρ)

Mozart, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 04  

ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ ΓΙΑ ..."ΑΓΓΕΛΟΥΣ" !

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                                               DUKE ORSINO:

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! 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 soe'er,

But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy

That it alone is high fantastical.

Από τη "Δωδεκάτη Νύχτα" του Ουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ, 1602