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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>Policrates of the Samions had such
        successe with such perseuerance in the pro-
        sperous waies of smiling fortune, that once
        he went about either to diminish it, or
        else to change it: namely, by casting a ve-
        rie rich ring into the middest of the sea,
        the which for all that, was found after-
        ward in the belly of a fish, which the fisher-
        men amongst the rest had caught. But marke
        <pb n="embmne_pae1591_fac100"/>
        what came of it. Not long after the king of
        the Persians chanced to take this king, and
        being apprehended, commanded him to be
        hanged, and miserably to be strangled. So
        thus you may see that the flattering faunings
        of fortune ( which the world compteth great
        felicitie in this life ) are neither certaine nor
        constant, nor of any continuance: and the
        more glorious and glittering they appeare,
        the more easily and speedilie they vanish
        away, like glasse, which of it owne nature is
        brickle and fraile.</p>
      
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SEQ 48
PARENT embmne_pae1591
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
MOTTO_EN_NORM Fortune when he fauns, heaps too much upon a man
NEXT embmne_pae1591_emblem049
IIHIM MNE
; MNE_EMB
CAPTION_EN A fish with the ring of Polycrates in its mouth
SOURCE_FILE embmne_pae1591.xml
LINK_FACSIMILE embmne_pae1591_fac099
MOTTO_LA <p> Inuitum fortuna fouet.
        <seg lang="en">Fortune when he fauneth, heapeth too
         much vpon a man.</seg></p>
HIM MNE
; MNE_EMB
IC 25D11
; 25F62(+3)
; 31A2753
; 41D2664
; 54F12(+4)
; 86(INVITUM FORTUNA FOVET)
; 98B(POLYCRATES)51(+0)
MOTTO_EN Fortune when he fauneth, heapeth too much vpon a man
URL_IMAGE embmne_pae1591_pic099.jpg
ID embmne_pae1591_emblem048
MOTTO_LA_NORM Invitum fortuna fovet
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0