Demosthenes has truly said—
Ἀνὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται,
so that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion—
“He who fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day.”
The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do—
“For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that’s slain.”
These coincidences are, no doubt, unintentional. For my own part, I do not believe that Shakspeare, when he spoke in Hamlet, of
“The undiscover’d country, from whose bourne