By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an 't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man's too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
-- Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare (1596)
as quoted in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway (1936)
as quoted in this excellent #podcast https://verybadwizards.com/episode/episode-316-a-four-letter-man-hemingways-the-short-happy-life-of-francis-macomber (2025)
