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Drowning: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of water in my ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon.— R. III. i. 4.

To yield the ghost; but still the envious flood Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth To seek the empty, vast, and wand'ring air : But smother'd it within my panting bulk, Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.— R. III. i. 4.

A pox of drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way.— 0. i. 3.