Note 62 — ACT. V.—Scene I.
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Valeria, daughter to Maximin, having killed herself for the love of Porphyrius; when she was to be carried off by the bearers, strikes one of them a box on the ear, and speaks to him thus:—
"Hold, are you mad, confounded dog? I am to rise, and speak the epilogue."—"Tyrannic Love."