See unbefit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "I cannot think upon thee with the esteem\n Thy talents should have won thee; and the page,\n Which for a fallen enemy could teem\n With scorn; or with the dead its warfare wage;\n Would shame the bard, not thee, and unbefit the age.",
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