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Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As't were a careless trifle.

      — Macbeth, Act I Scene 4

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KEYWORD: aloft

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King John
[IV, 2]

King John

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Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed
Under the tide: but now I breathe again
Aloft the flood, and can give audience
To any tongue, speak it of what it will.

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