Ovr _Author_, peradventure, giveth us Dame _Fortune_ (for these Reasons) pictur’d, thus: _She_ hath a _Comely-body_, to declare, How pleasing shee doth usually appeare To them, that love her Favours. She is _blinde_, (Or, hath still closed eyes) to put in minde, How blindly, and how heedlesly, she throwes Her _Largesse_, where her _Bounty_, she bestowes. She _stands upon a Ball_; that, wee may learne, Of outward things, the _tottering_, to discerne: Her _Ball_ hath _wings_; that it may signifie How apt her _Favours_ are, away to _flie_. A _Skarfe displayed by the wind_, she beares, (And, on her _naked-Body_, nothing weares) To shew, that what her _Favorite_ injoyes, Is not so much for _Vsefulnesse_, as _toyes_. Her _Head is hairelesse, all, except before_; To teach thee, that thy care should be the more To hold her _formost kindnesse_, alwayes fast; Lest, she doe show thee slipp’ry tricks, at last. And, lastly, that her _changing_ may be showne; She beareth in her Hand a _Wayned-moone_. By this Description, you may now descry Her true conditions, full as well as I: And, if you, still, suppose her, worth such honour, You have my leave to _wooe_, and _wayt_ upon her. Moreover (to her credit) I confesse, This _Motto_ falsly saith, her _Ficklenesse_ Is like the _Moones_: For, she hath frown’d on mee Twelve _Moones_, at least; and, yet, no _Change_ I see. _Vntill the =Steele=, the =Flint= shall smite, It will afford nor =Heat=, nor =Light=._ [Illustration: ANTÈ FERIT QUÀM FLAMMA MICET. ILLVSTR. XLI. _Book. 3_]