“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.”

— John of Bohemia

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
Variants and paraphrases:
Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs from a fight.
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Losers (2014) by Karl Shaw
Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs.
God willing, it will never happen that a Bohemian king runs from a fight!
With God's help it will never be that a Bohemian king would run from a fight!

Original

Absit, ut rex Boemie fugeret, sed illuc me ducite, ubi maior strepitus certaminis vigeret, Dominus sit nobiscum, nil timeamus, tantum filium meum diligenter custodite.

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