Give me some music; music, moody foodOf us that trade in love.

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.