The Poetical Recreations of Mr Alexander Craig | ||
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Contempt of Fortune.
Mans weaker partes are thrall to Fortunes wrong;The princelie part and portion is our owne:
And doeth alone to Vertue faire belong,
And is (alace) with our consent over-throwne.
Let Fortune frowne, or fawne; for shee is blinde:
Her power is nought against a Vertuous mynde.
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