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My boyrfiend has a play tonight and we can leave notes for the actors on a little card i want to write something sweet any ideas?

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    8 years ago
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    Shakespeare said -

    IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON

    on the card, you can write this -

    As you act in the play today, please remember this -

    YOU ARE MY LOVE THAT FEEDS THE MUSIC IN MY HEART

    Meaning

    Orsino is asking for more music because he is frustrated in his courtship of Countess Olivia. He muses that an excess of music might cure his obsession with love, in the way that eating too much remove's one's appetite for food. Music plays an important part in Shakespeare's plays and is often used to carry the plot. It's reasonable to surmise that he did believe it to be 'the food of love'.

    Origin

    From Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1602:

    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.

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