This speech is used in our conversation with Grant Goodman.
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Orsino
1. If Musicke be the food of Loue, play on,!
2. Giue me exce
sse of it: that
surfetting,
3. The appetite may
sicken, and
so dye.
4. That
straine agen, it had a dying fall:
5. O, it came ore my eare, like the
sweet
sound
6. That breathes vpon a banke of Violets;
7. Stealing, and giuing Odour.
Enough, no more,
8. ‘Tis not
so
sweet now, as it was before.
9. O
spirit of Loue, how quicke and fre
sh art thou,
10. That notwith
standing thy capacitie,
11. Receiueth as the Sea. Nought enters there,
12. Of what validity, and pitch
so ere,
13. But falles into abatement, and low price
14. Euen in a minute;
so full of
shapes is fancie,
15. That it alone, is high fanta
sticall.