'THAT LAST DITCH.'
Reading edition
Many reasons have been assigned for the Chivalry's determining to die in that last ditch. One William Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, the best reason we have yet seen. 'Tis thus:
'I will go seek Some ditch wherein to die: the foul best fits My latter part of life.'