Death hath
had a thousand doors to let out life,
I shall find one. . . From a loath'd life,
I'll not an hour outlive.
Source: Almera, daughter of the Viceroy of Sicily, in A Very Women, act 5, sc. 4, 1655.
-- Philip Massinger, ( 1583-1640), English dramatist; His plays include New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1633; he frequently collaborated with Fletcher.