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First Line: Fortune, my foe, why dost thou frown on me?
Last Line: I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again.
Subject(s): Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery


FORTUNE, my Foe, why dost thou frown on me?
And will my Fortune never better be?
Wilt thou, I say, for ever breed my pain?
And wilt thou ne'er return my joys again?

(No! let my ditty be henceforth -- )

Fortune, my Friend, how well thou favourest me!
A kinder Fortune man did never see!
Thou propp'st my thigh, thou ridd'st my knee of pain,
I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again.




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