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Quenya  ✦  phrase

Love and desire

Act I, Scene I in Duke Orsino's palace.

About this phrase

On the Twelfth Night, Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, is consumed by his passion for the melancholic Countess Olivia. His ostentatious musings on the nature of love begins with one of Shakespeare's most famous lines: "If music be the food of love, play on."

This is a portion of the Twelfth Night translated into Quenya by Findegil, Mellonath Daeron.

Source
Twelfth Night I 1
Language
Quenya
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