“Far from it that the King of Bohemia flee, but to get there lead me where there is greatest uproar of the fight in vigor; the Lord is with us, we must fear nothing, only keep my son diligently.”
Absit, ut rex Boemie fugeret, sed illuc me ducite, ubi maior strepitus certaminis vigeret, Dominus sit nobiscum, nil timeamus, tantum filium meum diligenter custodite.
Statement at the Battle of Crécy (26 August 1346), as quoted in Chronicles of Prague (c. 1370) by Benessius of Weitmil http://www.clavmon.cz/clavis/FRRB/chronica/CRONICA%20ECCLESIAE%20PRAGENSIS.htm<br>Variants and paraphrases:<br>Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs from a fight.<br>As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Losers (2014) by Karl Shaw<br>Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs.<br>God willing, it will never happen that a Bohemian king runs from a fight!<br>With God's help it will never be that a Bohemian king would run from a fight!
