Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3. After kissing Juliet, Romeo says these words and then drinks the poison he has taken with him to her tomb. In a metaphor he compares the poison to a desperate ship’s pilot who runs his "sea-sick" ship into the rocks.