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Orsino calls for music, then for more music, then for too much music — love, he says, is the same: you gorge until the appetite dies. "Enough, no more." He is lovesick for Olivia, but the news that reaches him is that she has shut herself away to mourn her brother.
❝ Monólogo · 9 frases Orsino Wants Too Much Music
Olivia Vows to Mourn for Seven Years
The play opens at Duke Orsino's court in Illyria. He asks for the same music again and again, declaring that too much of it will cure his appetite for love. Curio suggests hunting; Orsino turns the word 'hart' into a pun on his hunted heart. Then Valentine reports that Olivia refuses all suitors and will mourn her dead brother for seven years.
The play begins with a man who cannot stop wanting. Orsino has the musicians repeat the phrase, then admits, "It is not so sweet now as it was before" — a neat image of how appetite turns on itself. He is in love with the idea of love as much as with Olivia: one moment he is a hart hunted by his own desires, the next he is lecturing on how fancy overflows with shapes. When Valentine brings word that Olivia will veil herself for seven years, Orsino doesn't hear a refusal; he hears proof of how much she can love. His closing line turns her mourning into a compliment to himself — imagine how she would love a husband. The scene sets the play's engine running: love as excess, appetite, and self-fed fantasy.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”
He asks for too much music so that desire itself will sicken and die.
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“That strain again... it had a dying fall.”
He wants the same phrase repeated only for its fading close, which says everything about his mood.
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“so full of shapes is fancy that it alone is high fantastical.”
Fancy holds so many shapes that it is the most fantastical thing of all.
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“It is not so sweet now as it was before.”
Sweetness compared across time: fading taste in one plain clause.
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“Oh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, me thought she purged the air of pestilence.”
Love at first sight as purifying the plague: the heaviest metaphor for a first glance.
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Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again... it had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violence stealing and giving the order. Enough, no more. It is not so sweet now as it was before. Oh, spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou that not withstanding thy capacity receiveth as the sea not 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.
Twelfth Night: tu progreso
Capítulo 1 de 25 · quedan unos 81 min
Siguiente · 02word for wordLa escena: Viola Disguises Herself as a ManHe is feeding his mood. The repeated phrase moves him, but he also wants too much of it, so that his appetite will sicken and die — the same logic he applies to love.
Valentine reports that she will not receive suitors for seven years. She plans to veil herself like a cloisteress and mourn her dead brother in tears.
Curio suggests hunting, and Orsino turns 'hart' (a deer) into a pun on 'heart': his desires, he says, hunt him like hounds.
It describes a cadence, especially in music, that fades or drops at the end. Orsino uses it for a phrase that had a soft, sinking finish.
He refuses to hear it as a refusal. He says that if she can love a brother so much, imagine how she would love a husband once love's golden shaft strikes her.
