Both Uses of
surfeit
in
Twelfth Night
- If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Alas, their love may be called appetite,— No motion of the liver, but the palate,— That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt; But mine is all as hungry as the sea, And can digest as much: make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia.†
Scene 2.4
Definition:
an excessive amount; or to overindulge