Chaucer’s Chanticleer has dreams of his death by fox that he worries about - the occasion for dismissive poo-poo-ing by Pertelote, and for self-important pontificating by Chanticleer.
Also cf. The Lost Chord, by Adelaide Anne Proctor (1860) and music by Arthur Sullivan (1877).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Chord#Text_of_Sullivan's_setting
