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<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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Fortune when he fauns, heaps too much upon a man |
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A fish with the ring of Polycrates in its mouth |
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<p> Inuitum fortuna fouet. <seg lang="en">Fortune when he fauneth, heapeth too much vpon a man.</seg></p> |
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Fortune when he fauneth, heapeth too much vpon a man |
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Invitum fortuna fovet |