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Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds,     Rather than make unprofited return.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

If from deserted maid, Hermione, Whose charms were withering in the fallow wane Of an unprofited life, this speech forlorn Had seem'd to ring the knell of her young hopes.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds, Rather than make unprofited return.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William

Now it had slipped away unprofited by, he saw what that opportunity would have meant for him.

From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold