As performed by the Stellenbosch Madrigal Singers on 7 December 2017 in the PJ Olivier Art Centre.
Lyrics:
If music be the food of love
Sing on, sing on, sing on
'Til I am filled, with joy
For then my listening soul you move
To pleasures that can never cloy
Your eyes (your eyes), your mien (your mien), your tongue declare
That you are music everywhere
Pleasures invade both eye and ear
So fierce, the transports are,
They wound, they wound, they wound
And all my senses feasted are
Though yet (though yet) the treat is only, the treat is only sound
Sure I must perish by your charms
Unless you save me in your arms