Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
— Rosalind in Shakespeare, As You Like It