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Chap. 23. Os desining Fortune, 295
Scythia, Fortune was depicted in the form of a woman
without feet,having round about her at her right hand
a number of little wings.
Being without seet? Jhews that she never fiands sirm i
and the many wings fhew, that her gists and savours art
nosooner given, but arepresently lost? and do as it were ssy
away again, before they be sully possefsed.
VI. Alexander Neapolitanus relateth that in Greece,
lier Image was made wholly of Glass h to (hew that
her favours are brittle, and subjeft to sudden de-
, cays.
VII. Celts the Philosopher resembled fortune unto
a Comedy, in which many Actors appear often as
Kings and great Monarchs i and presently after be-
come poor rilhermen, ssaves, bond-men, and the
like.
VIII. Socrates compared her to a Theatre, or com-
mon meeting place, where without all order or obser-
vance men take their places and seats, without respedi
to the dignity of any.
Hereby is shewed that Jhe ( without refyeU os birth,
worth, merit or (iate,) blindly, unadvisedly', and without
any order or reason, bejiows selicities , riches and sa-
vours.
IX. In Egira, a City of Achaia, Fortune was drawn
in theshapeof a beautiful woman, who held in one
of her hands a Cornucopia j in the other, the boy
Cupid.
By which issignisied ( as Pausanias saith ) that beau-
ty without riches avails nothing : and indeed I may say
he is doubly sortunate, who in his love enjoys the sruition
esboth beauty and riches : but he is happy in the supcr-
lative degree, who with the other two meets with vertue and
love also.
X CiraUus saith, that sortune Was wit\ some de-
picted
Scythia, Fortune was depicted in the form of a woman
without feet,having round about her at her right hand
a number of little wings.
Being without seet? Jhews that she never fiands sirm i
and the many wings fhew, that her gists and savours art
nosooner given, but arepresently lost? and do as it were ssy
away again, before they be sully possefsed.
VI. Alexander Neapolitanus relateth that in Greece,
lier Image was made wholly of Glass h to (hew that
her favours are brittle, and subjeft to sudden de-
, cays.
VII. Celts the Philosopher resembled fortune unto
a Comedy, in which many Actors appear often as
Kings and great Monarchs i and presently after be-
come poor rilhermen, ssaves, bond-men, and the
like.
VIII. Socrates compared her to a Theatre, or com-
mon meeting place, where without all order or obser-
vance men take their places and seats, without respedi
to the dignity of any.
Hereby is shewed that Jhe ( without refyeU os birth,
worth, merit or (iate,) blindly, unadvisedly', and without
any order or reason, bejiows selicities , riches and sa-
vours.
IX. In Egira, a City of Achaia, Fortune was drawn
in theshapeof a beautiful woman, who held in one
of her hands a Cornucopia j in the other, the boy
Cupid.
By which issignisied ( as Pausanias saith ) that beau-
ty without riches avails nothing : and indeed I may say
he is doubly sortunate, who in his love enjoys the sruition
esboth beauty and riches : but he is happy in the supcr-
lative degree, who with the other two meets with vertue and
love also.
X CiraUus saith, that sortune Was wit\ some de-
picted