For the glances that I cast around meet fortune's foul disdain; And I will blot the legend, as an accursed screed. 'Twas writ in Christian letters plain that all the world might read: 'My good right arm can gain me more altho' its range be short, Then all I know by eye-sight or the boundless range of thought.' The blue tahala fluttering bright upon my armored brow In brilliant hue assorts but ill with the lot I meet with now.

Defiant still of Fortune's power, his thoughts at last found vent, For Fortune had been cruel, and in words of discontent, As if he blamed the serpent upon his shield displayed, The torrent of his heart broke forth and in wrath the warrior said: "O wasters of the brightest hope I knew in years long past!

Now, step lively, my man, and your fortune's made.

But what the heavens assign, that do I still think best: My fame was never yet by Fortune's frown opprest: Here, therefore, will I rest in this my homely bower, With patience to abide the storms of every shower.

[Although it appears from what immediately follows that Vanity had assembled Fortune's vassals, we are not necessarily to conclude that the latter enter here.

Count the bliss Of the one passing hour thine own; the rest Is Fortune's.

His poverty is his happiness, for it makes some men believe that he is none of fortune's favourites.

What, haveinge fyrst beene cheated of thy wealthe, Darest thou againe be cheated of thy witt, And thynke so poor a lord as is my father, The most dyspysd forsaken Ganelon, Can propp thy mynde, fortune's shame upon thee!

He stands aloft today, full of favour, wealth, honour, and prosperity, in the top of fortune's wheel: tomorrow in prison, worse than nothing, his son's a beggar.

The poor father had been imploring Wolfgang to go to Paris for fame and fortune's sake.

The road ascends to Fortune's Well, as uninteresting a "capital" as could well be imagined and for the sheer ugliness of its buildings and church probably unsurpassed.

As swallows shrink before the wintry blast, And gladly seek a more congenial soil, So flatterers halt when fortune's lure is past, And basely court some richer lordling's smile.

Now, now they grapple, and now board amain; Blow up the hatches, they're off all again: Give them a broadside, the dice run at all, Down comes the mast and yard, and tacklings fall; She grows giddy now, like blind Fortune's wheel, She sinks there, she sinks, she turns up her keel.

Despite the varied turns of fortune's wheel, there are still many fine old gabled houses in Dartmouth, with overhanging upper stories rich in carved oak.

The great mass of the German left swung backwards in a steady and orderly way, not losing many men and not demoralized by this amazing turn in Fortune's wheel.

When I was stinted in my fortune almost everything was a pleasure to me, because most things then being out of my reach, I had always the pleasure of hoping for 'em; now fortune's in my hand she's as insipid as an old acquaintance.

"Our fortune's made," said Mr. Scovill, shaking him by the hand.

Mr. Fortune's practice.

Fortune's caravan.

On fortune's back, pt.1-5.

Fortune's caravan.

Mary Rose Bradford (W); 13Nov61; R285268. Fortune's toy.

2. ¶Every human being is so constituted as to desire to lord it over such as yield, and to employ the turn of Fortune's scale against voluntary slaves.

Cover'd in fortune's shade, I rest reclin'd; My griefs all silent; and my joys resign'd.

This is not yet our fortune's utmost malice; The gall remains behind.