Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The opening lines of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night read: 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! Alexander Pope emended the word sound (line 5) to south. A discussion of Pope's motive for this emendation is discussed here: http://www.geocities.com/Sebastjan60/English/sound_south.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.