Scene I. An apartment in the Duke's palace.

Enter Duke, Curio, and other Lords; [Musicians] attending.

Duke. 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.