...really published some years before : — He that is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again ; But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. These lines were written by Sir John Mennis, the author, in conjunction with James Smith, of the Muxantm...

...bу Nuit, reprinted from the editions of 1640-5 6-8. London, 1817 In this volume are the lines, " For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Generally ascribed to the Hudibras. 737 Nabbes, Thomas, Plays and Poems, viz: Hannibal and Scipio,...

...some copies a cancelled leaf (reprinted in the new edition) is found, in which are the lines — ' But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day/ which have been often quoted as occurring in Hudibras. See a long note on the subject in Bonn's edition...

...Though, apparently, spirited, the cock is not game to the back-bone. He is, fortunately, easily cowed. " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. " He makes the best of unfortunate circumstances, and calmly acquiesces in his fate, saying with his...

...Melbourne, and may therefore be said to have quite a legitimate place in these pages. N CHAPTER XIII. " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." FROM my own experience, I do not think even the closest friends are so unhappy in their separation...

...friend Basti Ram, thinking that on this occasion " discretion was the better part of valour," and that he "that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," escaped over the snows of the Himalayas into the British district of Kumaon. Let us not blame him....

...Visits Like those of angels, short and far between." " The Grave."—Blair. The well known couplet— " He that fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day," has been attributed to Wordsworth; but it is not his. It is included in the " Musarum Delicise " of...

...some copies a cancelled leaf (reprinted in the new edition) is found, in which are the lines — ' But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day,' which have been often quoted as occurring in Hudibras. See a long note on the subject In Bonn's edition...

...Rabelais ? Son influence sur quelques litterateurs Anglais ? d. Dans Hudibras se trouvent ce vers : He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. De qucl ouvrage fra^ais provicnt-il 1 J>K. ABELT8HAU8ER. Translate into English : — Beginning, Der...

...these well known lines beyond their reputed authors. The verses supposed to originate with Butler, " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again," are not in the Hudibras ; and lines very similar...