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Why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: maintain

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Henry IV, Part II
[III, 2]

Bardolph

1911

Pardon, sir; I have heard the word. 'Phrase' call you
By this day, I know not the phrase; but I will maintain the
with my sword to be a soldier-like word, and a word of
good command, by heaven. Accommodated: that is, when a man
they say, accommodated; or, when a man is being-whereby 'a
thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

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Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 2]

Prince John

2510

I give it you, and will maintain my word;
And thereupon I drink unto your Grace.

3

Henry IV, Part II
[IV, 5]

Henry V

3116

My gracious liege,
You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;
Then plain and right must my possession be;
Which I with more than with a common pain
'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.
Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WARWICK, LORDS, and others

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