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 1   T-I|       to displease the reader.~Fortune’s not so kind to me now~
 2   T-I|     favour you, grant you good fortune~never to be in need, a fate
 3   T-I|    tested by hard times.~While Fortune helps us, a smile on her
 4   T-I|     are left me:~the rest were Fortune’s crew, not mine.~So, O
 5   T-I|        my hair:~such tokens of fortune suit happy poets,~a wreath
 6   T-I|       crowd chases the glow of Fortune:~when it’s clothed in night’
 7   T-I|        is my state, such is my fortune now,~there should be no
 8 T-III|        loyal hand.~So may good fortune stay with you, and may you
 9 T-III|        lies.~You have a modest fortune, though worth a great one,~
10 T-III|       of immense wealth,~still fortune gives and takes away as
11  T-IV|        am, and what I was, how fortune~changes, from where to where
12  T-IV|       not a knight new-made by fortune’s gift.~I was not the first
13   T-V|       do you fear the power of Fortune’s precarious wheel,~nor
14   T-V|      bread of beggary himself.~Fortune wanders, changeable, with
15   T-V|      to me than myself.~Though Fortune might detract from their
16   T-V|    That virtue not governed by Fortune is truly rare,~that which
17  ExII|      this also in my change of fortune: you were absent,~a friend
18  ExII|    that too was part of my ill fortune.~Yet your brother’s house
19   ExI|     loyalty stands or falls by Fortune.~You wont easily find one
20   ExI|       only love for those whom fortune follows:~but when she’s
21   ExI|     has not lessened,~the more Fortune rages, the more you resist
22   ExI|        nervous.~So, pierced by Fortune’s iniquitous arrows,~I only
23   ExI|        possible to cheat fate.~Fortune takes care to destroy me,
24   ExI|     hurt by continual blows of Fortune,~until I’ve hardly room
25   ExI|     help you can, to an exile.~Fortune has surrendered me to you –
26 ExIII|        first of women, in whom Fortune shows herself~as clear-sighted,
27 ExIII|        taken flight along with Fortune.~Though it strikes one man,
28  ExIV| Faithless Friend: The Wheel Of Fortune~ ~Shall I complain or be
29  ExIV|      to sail with me.~Now that Fortune’s frowned, you slide away,~
30  ExIV|     you doing this! Why, given Fortune~might fail, do you lessen
31  ExIV|      second five,~and stubborn fortune is unchanging, and slyly~
32  ExIV|   perhaps have heard of it.~My fortune is unequal to my purpose,
33  IBIS|   under your feet,~so may your fortune always vanish, who knows
34   Ind|   Fortuna~The Roman goddess of Fortune, Chance and Luck, identified
35   Ind|       49-100 ~Book EII.IX:1-38 Fortune as chance and fate.~Book
36   Ind|      EIV.III:1-58 The Wheel of Fortune.~Book EII.VII:1-46 Fortune’
37   Ind|     Fortune.~Book EII.VII:1-46 Fortune’s iniquitous arrows. Fickle
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