Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . ed,thouconfideieft, that there are as wellbarren, as fertile yeeres. Thou haftyeelded thy lei fe to fortunes fway,:thou muft bee concent with theconditions of thy miftrefle. Etvdeuoureft thou to ftay the force olthe turning whecle? But thou foolifh- Thilofopbicall Comfort. foolifheft: man, that euer was,ifit beginnech to ftay3 it ceafeth tobe fortune. The LVerse.) TJyiofopby difcriktb the conditions offortune. T He pride fortune fparetb ticne,But lik? tbeflvids ejfrrtfta Eunpm borne,OftCfifteth might te Princes from their throne,And eft. the
Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . ed,thouconfideieft, that there are as wellbarren, as fertile yeeres. Thou haftyeelded thy lei fe to fortunes fway,:thou muft bee concent with theconditions of thy miftrefle. Etvdeuoureft thou to ftay the force olthe turning whecle? But thou foolifh- Thilofopbicall Comfort. foolifheft: man, that euer was,ifit beginnech to ftay3 it ceafeth tobe fortune. The LVerse.) TJyiofopby difcriktb the conditions offortune. T He pride fortune fparetb ticne,But lik? tbeflvids ejfrrtfta Eunpm borne,OftCfifteth might te Princes from their throne,And eft. the ahuti (apiine doeth cares n. ifoi-ttje 33 niches teares andmene^And the (ad grows jvbicb fat hath cavsd doth skorneThus doth fbge plajj, to her power more k^owen,Shexvmggr:<.(?: dvdtrs% whin mans fikhfttiteOne boitre, hail: ffe dseth fee ^ndfonunaxe* rose. Fortune fre^eth , that flee hath takennothing from Boetiusjbat fas his. Vt Hvould vrge thee a lit-tle with Fortunes OwneJipceches. Wherefore con-E 2 {Tder. TScetius bis i fider thon,if fhee askcth not what caufe> O man 3 chargeftthoumee with daily complaints?What iniurie haue I done thee?What goods of thine haue I takenfrom thee? Contend with mee be-fore any Iudge,about the pofltlsionof riches and dignities: and if thoucanft fticWjthat the proprietie of a-ny of thefe things belong to anymortall wight, 1 will foorthwithwillingly graunt, that thofe things,which thou demandcftjWere nature produced thee out ofthy mothers wombe, I receiuedthee naked and poore in all rclpects,checrifbed thee with my wealth,and (which makcth thee now tofall out with me) being forward tofaucurthee, I had moft tender carefor thy education, and adorned theewith the aboundance & Iplcndour of, .... i i ? ? ? ???an HUJ. WU ?mpw *mw Tbilofophicau lomfort. of all things^wbich are in my pow-er. Now it pleafeth mee to with-draw my hand ., yeekkhankes, asone that hath had the vie, of thatwhich was not his o
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