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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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27. Upon the Inconstancy of Fortune.

Fortune observes no Method; for throughout
Humane Affairs, her Wheel is turn'd about
With great Inconstancy. Low things arise;
High are confounded, by her quick surprize.
Good Fortune, is transmuted into Ill;
For to make Evill, Good; is at her will.
Let not them grieve, who under hard Fates lie:
Good Fortune's near at Hand: for shame don't die.