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Order It: "If music be the food of love" from Twelfth Night

Violets
Violets

Violets

Jane Giruad. Violets. The flowers of Shakespeare, [1845]. Folger Shakespeare Library.

“If music be the food of love, play on.” Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines of the opening speech of Twelfth Night, with its memorable reference to a bank of violets.