If, by your _Lot_ you had beene prais’d Your minde, perchance, it would have rais’d, Above the _meane_. Should you receive Some check, thereby, It would bereave Your _Patience_: For, but few can beare, _Reproofes_, which unexpected are. But, now prepared you have beene, To draw your _Lot_ once more begin; And, if another _Blancke_ you get, Attempt your _chance_, no more, as yet. 53 To crosse your hopes, _Misfortune_ sought; And, by your _Lot_, a _Blanck_ hath brought: But, he who knew her ill intent, Hath made this _Blanke_ her spight prevent; For, if that _Number_ you shall take, Which these two _fignres_, backward, make, And view the place to which they guide; An _Emblem_, for you, they provide. 54 These _Lots_ are almost _Ten_ to _One_ Above the _Blankes_; yet, thou hast none. If thus thy _Fortune_ still proceed, Tis _Ten_ to _One_ if well thou speed. Yet, if thou doe not much neglect, To doe, as _Wisdome_ shall direct, It is a _Thousand_ unto _ten_ But all thy Hopes will prosper, then. 55 It seemes, Dame _Fortune_, doth not know, What _Lot_, on thee, she should bestow; Nor, canst thou tell, (if thou mightst have The choice) what _Fortune_, thou shouldst crave. For, _one thing_, now, thy minde requires; Anon, _another_ it desires. When Resolution thou hast got, Then, come againe, and draw thy _Lot_. 56 The _Chance_, which thou obtained hast, Of all our _Chances_, is the last; And, casting up the totall _summes_, We finde thy _Gaine_, to _Nothing_ comes. Yet if it well be understood, This _Chance_ may chance to doe thee good; For, it inferres what _Portion_ shall, To ev’ry one, (at last) befall; And warnes, while _something_, is enjoyd, That, well it (alwaies) be imployd. _FINIS._ [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: Decoration] _A Table for the better finding out of the principall things and matters, mentioned in these Foure Bookes._ _A._ Adversitie. pag. 16. 17. 26. 30. 240. 243 Ægle. 6. 3. 111. Affection. 7. 33. 34. 83. 162. Affliction. 16. 17. 44. 47. 70. 81. 108. 240. Agreement in Desire. 34. Age. 44. Ambitions emptines. 216. Ambition. 69. Anchor. 39. 72. Annuall revolutions. 157. Anvils and Hammer. 17. Appearances deceive. 175. Apollo. 234. Archer. 25. Armour. 111. Arrs. 1. 80. Action. 9. Armes. 3. 32. 80. Authoritie. 137. _B._ Ball. 7. Beginning. 102. Best men not best favour’d. 224. Bear. 23. Bees. 23. 90. 250. Beautie. 40. Blabs. 246. Blessings long enjoyed. 70. Bounds. 161. A Bore. 110. Borrowed worth. 14. A Bowe bended. 39. Bridle. 169. A Broken-heart 77. Busy-bodies. 148. Butterfly and Spider. 18. _C._ Candle and Flie. 40. Carnal affections. 43. Caduceus. 9. 88. Ceremonies of estate. 137. Centaure. 103. A Childe. 45. Christian confidence. 81.