"What better can the Lord do for a man, than take him home when he has done his work?"

"But, Master Yeo, a sudden death?"

"And why not a sudden death, Sir John? Even fools long for a short life and a merry one, and shall not the Lord's people pray for a short death and a merry one? Let it come as it will to old Yeo!"

Westward Ho! chap. xxxii. 1855.