Volume 1 / Part 1 / Act 2 — ROGER L'ESTRANGE.
Reading edition
1616-1704.
Fables from several Authors.
Fable 398.
Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.
MISCELLANEOUS.
From Apophthegms, &c., first gathered and compiled in Latin, by Erasmus, and now translated into English by Nicholas Vdall. 8vo. 1542. Fol. 239.
That same man, that rennith awaie, Maie again fight an other daie.
From the Musarum Deliciae, compiled by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640
He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.[24]