FORTUNE WEARIES WITH

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ONE

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THE

SAME

MAN

ALWAYS.

CHANGE OF FORTUNE IS THE LOT OF LIFE.

The fage who said in antient days:

"When the strong-box contains no more,
And that the kitchen fire is out,

Both friends and flatt'rers fhun the door,"
Attefted then, what even now

Is daily feen on every hand:
The profperous in life, alone
Have proffer'd fervice at command.
Let Fortune with propitious winds
Waft but the laden bark to fhore,
He finds a hoft of helping friends,
Who never had a friend before.
Beyond his need on ev'ry fide,
He fees unafk'd-for fympathy;
Officious zeal to help and aid
The tide of his profperity.

“Grease the fat fow! all help! all aid!"
On ev'ry hand the harpies cry;

'Tis eafy rowing in the wake
Of others' toil and industry!

Thus 'tis in life, we conftant fee
The Drones and Idlers of our kind,
Prey on the labours of the Bee,
And fatten on what others find.
The Foxes of the human race,
The Beavers of their own defpoil;
Craft, lord it in poor Merit's place,
And take the credit of his toil.

DONEC eris felix, multos numerabis amicos :
Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.

Aspicis ut veniant ad candida tecta columbæ,
Accipiat nullas sordida turris aves?

* Plutarch.

ALL IS LUCK OR ILL LUCK IN THIS WORLD.

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FORTUNE

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A' THINGS HAE AN END, AN' A PUDDING HAS TWA.

Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquàm:

Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.

Utque comes radios per solis euntibus umbra est :

Cùm latet hic pressus nubibus, illa fugit :

Mobile sic sequitur fortunæ lumina vulgus?

Quæ simul inductâ nube teguntur, abit.-OVID, i. Trist. 8.
GRANARO vuoto formica non frequenta.-Italian Proverb.

Op ledige solders en komen geen Kalanders.-Dutch Proverb.

WER da liegt, über dem läuft alle Welt hin.-German Proverb.
PARENTE Con parente

Guai à chi non ha niente.

VRIENDEN sijn vrienden, maer wee diese van doen heeft.

A BON vent chaque sainct aide.

IN borsa serrata, amico non si trova.

VRIENDEN in der noot
Vier-en-twintigh in een loot.

FELICIUM omnes consanguinei.

MEN kent geen vrient als in der noot;
Den rijcken na den doot.

DIEWEIL die Henn' Eier legt, legt man ihr auch.-Old German Proverb.

WHILE the Pot boils, Friendship blooms.

IN Prosperity Friends are numerous and cheap.

INFELICIUM nulli sunt affines.

L'HOMME pauvre est toujours en pais étranger.-JUAN RUFO, Apoph. 541.

THE Vulgar find Friends neither in Prosperity nor Adversity: because in the former they know nobody, and that in Adversity nobody will know them.-GRACIAN.

INTEREST makes all seem Reason that leads to it.-DRYDEN, Sec. Love.

The noblest Friendship ever shown,

The Saviour's history makes known,

Though some have turned and turned it:

And whether being crazed or blind,

Or seeking with a biassed mind,

Have not, it seems, discerned it.-COWPER.

ALL BITE THE BITTEN DOG.

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HILST I did fhine fierce Boreas put me out,

Againe he kindles me at the fecond bout:

As fometimes did the clowne, now Boreas doth,
Both heat and cold he breatheth from his mouth,

The billow whom it caft into the maine,
Returning threw him in the Shippe againe;

Fortune throwes downe, then raiseth from the ground;
Achilles fpeare doth cure whom it did wound.

Loffes prove good to fome; whom Greece condemnd,
The Perfian for his vallour could commend.

Be not cast downe, dispaire not at mischance,
God who hath croffed thee, will thee advance.

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