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In this you speak according to vulgar prejudice, and not according to truth; nor do you perceive that the fault you blame is not mine, but Fortune’s, who often exalts the unworthy, and leaves the worthiest in low estate. But, not to dwell on such considerations, look a little into first principles, and you will see that we are all formed of the same material and by the same hand.
As a setting for her thoughts on Fortune’s changes, she makes use of the favourite simile of a castle here the Castle of Fortune as representing the world, wherein the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, jostle one another. She criticises all men, from the prince to the pauper, but not women, since these have been sufficiently criticised and decried.
Joanna! born in Fortune’s golden hour, On thee the Holy Spirit pours His Flood And His high grace is given thee for dower. Now all great gifts are thine: O blessed be He That lent thee life! how word my grateful prayer? No prayer of thine was spoken fruitlessly, O Maid of God! O Joan! O Virgin rare! Mark me this portent! strange beyond all telling!
It were difficult to say if some vision of this kind did not float across the exalted imagination of the illustrious Daniel, amid that shower of fortune’s favours such a visit would inevitably bring down baronetcies, knighthood, deputy-lieutenancies would rain upon the land, and a general epidemic of feasting and festivity raise every heart in the island, and nearly break Father Mathew’s.
“Gold pleasure buys; But pleasure dies, For soon the gross fruition cloys; Though raptures court, The sense is short; But virtue kindles living joys;— “Joys felt alone! Joys asked of none! Which Time’s and fortune’s arrows miss: Joys that subsist, Though fates resist, An unprecarious, endless bliss! “Unhappy they! And falsely gay!
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