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1562.  Legh, Armory, Pref. Suche they are, as be gone from the world, of whome I am sure to be vnthanked.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 723. If all the world Should in a pet of temperance feed on Pulse,… Th’ all-giver would be unthank’t, would be unprais’d.

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1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., cxcii. Their batter’d Admiral too soon withdrew, Unthank’d by ours for his unfinish’d Fight. Ibid. (1700), Pal. & Arc., I. 388. Unwelcom Freedom and unthank’d Reprieve.

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1814.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 630. Unthanked, and left worse than defenceless, by the friends of the Government.

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1897.  H. N. Howard, Footsteps Proserpine, 95. Though unthanked he fall Midway…, His soul shall mount to Heav’n.

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