The misfortune foretold befell him and indeed woeful misfortune and ill luck pursued many of them for their part in the wrong doing.

Exile enlightens, misfortune corrects.

What misfortune doth conclude The Towne so unhappie? Lady.

From the old man's own calm hands, within a year or two of his death, I received the legacy of the written journal of these phenomena, as recorded by the victim from day to day, during the seven months that this mysterious misfortune dwelt within his house.

[Footnote 9: The Folio may be right here:'Oh terrible wooer!May ten times treble thy misfortunes fall' &c.]

Then forth he casts in his unquiet thought, What he may do her favour to obtaine; What brave exploit, what perill hardly wrought, 220 What puissant conquest, what adventurous paine, May please her best, and grace unto him gaine; He dreads no danger, nor misfortune feares, His faith, his fortune, in his breast he beares.

Yet e'en on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.

The fickle crowd with fortune comes and goes; Wealth still finds followers, and misfortune foes.

Seek opportunities to let him hear this wholesome truth, for in good sooth, I would not willingly see a misfortune light upon the head of a son of my ancient nurse, and that, too, in the decline of his days.

"At the bear-hunt the other day," he said, "I had the misfortune towell, to fall out with the prince.

A mind like Scaliger's, superior still, No grief could conquer, no misfortune chill.

To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt.