"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"
resemble the following quatrain in the _Satyre Menippée_, being one of
the several verses appended to the tapestry on which was wrought the
battle of Senlis:--
"Souvent celuy qui demeure
Est cause de son meschef;
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure
Peut combattre de rechef."