“Behind a veil, unseen yet present,
I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.”

Derrière un voile, invisible et présente,
J'étais de ce grand corps l'âme toute-puissante.
Agrippine, Britannicus, (1669), act I, scene I.

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Derrière un voile, invisible et présente, J'étais de ce grand corps l'âme toute-puissante.

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