Fickle indeed were the Florentines ever, but in Cosimo they had a master who would not let them go.

Fortune, though she smile to-day, Fickle is and will not stay, But true-love changeth never.

So fickle is popular favor that when the crowd saw that nothing happened, they spurned the god loudly before whom they had grovelled in the dust till then.

" Modesty is as fickle as fashion and assumes almost as many different forms as dress itself.

shall the land of Achilles Reluctantly cherish a dastardly slave, Who can crouch at the foot of a despot, whose will is As fickle as wind, and as rude as the wave?