Despised, as one trodden under foot.
“I will lift
The down-trod Mortimer as high iʹ the air
As this ungrateful king.”
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Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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