Note 49 — MONODY ON MAJOR ANDRE.
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l. 14. Intrepid Portia.—
“Brutus. Impatient of my absence, “And grieved that young Octavius, with Mark Antony “Had made themselves so strong, she grew distract, “And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire.” Julius Cæsar, act 4. sc. 4.