“If you betray me, can I take a better revenge
Than to love the person you hate?”

Me puis-je mieux venger, si vous me trahissez,
Que d'aimer à vos yeux ce que vous haïssez?
Domitien, act IV, scene iii.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)

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Me puis-je mieux venger, si vous me trahissez, Que d'aimer à vos yeux ce que vous haïssez?

Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)

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French tragedian 1606–1684

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