• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

    William Shakespeare: This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
    1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.