He who finds a worthy wife

More's Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation veers off at one point into a discussion of what to do if someone is convinced God wants him to kill himself. (In the 16th century they didn't have the luxury of making an amateur diagnosis of schizophrenia, though surely "demonic possession" was tossed around more freely.)

In a lighter moment during this, More tells the "common tale" of a woodcarver who decided he should die on Good Friday, just like Jesus. His wife obligingly said she'd crucify him on a large cross he'd been working on -- oh, but first he should be whipped and crowned with thorns. He agreed. So she tied him to a post and "left not off beating, with holy exhortation to suffer, so much and so long that ere ever she left work and unbound him (praying nevertheless, that she might put on his head, and drive well down, a crown of thorns that she had wrought for him and brought him), he said he thought this was enough for that year."

When next Good Friday came, "then was his desire past; he longed to follow Christ no further."