Ne Deeth, allas, ne wol nat han my lyf.
Thus walke I, lyk a restelees kaityf.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Pardoner’s Tale. The Old Man that the three revelers meet longs for Death to end the suffering of old age. But Death won’t take him, so he wanders likes a restless wretch, he tells them. He is responding to the most insolent of the three rioters who rudely asked why he had lived so long in such old age.