Translations:CP 05413/13/en
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- ↑ Arranged quote from Corneille. In forgiving Cinna, Augustus declares: "You betray my benefits, I want to redouble them; / I had showered you with them, I want to burden you with them." (Corneille, Cinna, act V, scene 3, v. 1707-1708). Proust often uses this line, thus condensed ('Je t'ai comblé de biens') or transposed ('Tu m'as comblé de biens'), to thank his correspondents (see CP 02030, CP 04054 and CP 05431; Kolb, IX, no. 105 and XIX, no. 16; BMP, no. 48, p. 20). [LJ, FL]