The correspondent part to the thought contained in these three writers occurs in the _Julius Cæsar_ (act iv. sc. 3, l. 213, vol. vii. p. 396), where Brutus and Cassius are discussing the question of proceeding to Philippi and offering battle to “young Octavius and Marc Antony;” it is decided by the argument which Brutus urges with much force,— “Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe: The enemy increaseth every day; We, at the height, are ready to decline. There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” These lines, we may observe, are an exact comment on Whitney’s text; there is the “full sea,” on which Fortune is “now afloat;” and people are all warned, “at the first occasion to embrace,” or “take the current when it serves.” The “images,” too, of Fortune and of Occasion in Corrozet’s “HECATOMGRAPHIE,” Embs. 41 and 84, are very suggestive of the characteristics of the “fickle goddess.” L’ymage de fortune Fortun[e/] eſt vng euenement Inopiné & treſſoubdain, Ne luy donne doncques (mondain) Effect deſſus toy nullement. [Illustration: _Corrozet, 1540._] Fortune is standing upright upon the sea; one foot is on a fish, the other on a globe; and in the right hand is a broken mast. Occasion is in a boat and standing on a wheel; she has wings to her feet, and with her hands she holds out a swelling sail; she has streaming hair, and behind her in the stern of the boat Penitence is seated, lamenting for opportunities lost. The stanzas to “Occasion” are very similar to those of other Emblem writers; and we add, therefore, only the English of the verses to “Fortune,”—_The Image of Fortune_. “A strange event our Fortune is, Unlocked for, sudden as a shower; Never then, worldling! give to her Right over thee to wield her power.” A series of questions follow,— “Tell me, O fortune, for what end thou art holding the broken mast wherewith thou supportest thyself? And why also is it that thou art painted upon the sea, encircled with so long a veil? Tell me too why under thy feet are the ball and the dolphin?” As in the answers given by Whitney, there is abundant plainness in Corrozet,—