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immenfe number, of various fruits without the labours of 
men. When they had been defcribed to Sertorius in the 
mod enchanting colours, that celebrated general expreffed 
a with to retire thither, and to remove himfelf from the 
noife of the world and the dangers of war. Straio. 
FOR'TUNATE, ffortunatvs, Lat.] Lucky; hap¬ 
py ; (uccefsful; rrot fubjeft to mifcarriage. Ufed of per. 
ions or actions.—1 am moft fortunate thus accidentally to 
encounter you. Shakefpeare . 
No, there is a necefiity in fate 
Why (till the brave bold man is fortunate; 
He keeps his object ever full in fight, 
And that affurunce holds him firm and right: 
True, ’tis a narrow path that leads to bliIs, f 
But right before there is no precipice ; J- 
Fear makes them look afide, and fo their footing mifs. J 
Dry den. 
FOR'TUN AT E LY, ado. Happily; fuccefsfully: 
Bright Eliza rul’d Britannia’s (late, 
And boldly wife, and fortunately great. Prior. 
FOR'TUNATENESS, f. Happinefs; good luck; fuc- 
cefs.—O me, faid fhe, whofe greateft fortunatenefs is more 
unfortunate than my fider’sgreated unfortunatenefs.Stagey. 
FORTUNA'T US, a man’s name. 
FOR'TUNE,/. \_fortuna, hat. fortune, Fr.] The power 
fuppofed to distribute the lots of life according to her 
own humour. See the preceding article Fortuna.— 
Though piety and virtue cannot always fecure us from 
the affliftive vicifiitudes of fortune, they alone can afford 
fupport under them ; and in the fame manner, when the 
change is profperous, they only can render fuch fuccefs a 
bleffing, Bicknell. 
Fortune, that arrant whore, 
Ne’er turns the key to the poor. Shakefpeare. 
The good or ill that befalls man.—The adequate mean¬ 
ing ot chance, as didinguilhed from fortune, in that the 
latter is underdood to befal only rational agents, but 
chance to be among inanimate bodies. Bentley. 
Rejoice, faid he, to-day; 
In you the fortune of Great Britain lies: 
Among fo brave a people you are they 
Whom heav’n has chofe to fight for fuch a prize. Dryden. 
The chance of life ; means of living.—His father dying, 
be was driven to London to feek his fortune. Swift. — Suc- 
cefs, good or bad ; event.—This terrefirial globe has been 
furreunded by the fortune and boldnefs of many naviga¬ 
tors. Temple, 
No, he fhall eat, and die with me, or live; 
Our equal crimes (hall equal fortune give. Dryden. 
Eflate ; pofTefiions.—He was younger fon to a gentleman 
of a good birth, but fmall fortune. Swift. 
The fate which governs poets, thought it fit 
He fliould not raife his fortunes by his wit. Dryden. 
The portion of a man or woman : generally of a woman.— 
Thejfi>r<««e-hunters have already caff their eyes upon her, 
and take care to plant themfelves in her view. Spectator. 
When mifs delights in her fpinnet, 
A fidler may a fortune get. Swift. 
Futurity ; future events : 
You who men’s fortunes in their faces read, 
To find out mine, look not, alas, on me : 
But mark her face, and all tire features heed; 
For only there is writ my : ediny. Cowley. 
“ Fortune favours fools.”—The Latins fay, Fortuna 
favet fatuis. The Spainiurds, Al embre ojado la fortuna de da 
lamano. This proverb, by offering to.otir contemplation 
the.manifold caprices of fortune, is meant to (Emulate to 
a drift attention to the next: 
41 When Fortune knocks, be fure to open the door.” 
-FOR Oil 
•—That is, let no.favourable opportunitv flip* of better¬ 
ing or improving our affairs, for fear it Ihould never oc¬ 
cur again. 
To FOR'TUNE, v. n. To befal; to fall out ; to happen ; 
to eonte cafually to pafs.—It fortuned, the fame night, that 
a Chriftian, ferving a Turk in the camp, fecretly gave the 
watchmen warning, fiiolles. 
It fortuned, as fair it then befel 
Behind his back, unweeting, where he flood, 
Of ancient time ihera-was a fpringing well, 
From which faff trickled forth a diver Hood. Spenfer. 
FOR'TUNE BAY, a bay on the fouth coad of New- 
foundland. This extenfive bay is interfperfed with feve, 
ral fmall idands, and wiihin it are many leffer bays: 
twenty miles north-wed of Placentia bar*» 
FOR'TUNE-BOOK, f A book tombed to know 
fortune or future"events : 
Thou know’d a face, in whofe each lock 
Beauty lays ope love’s fortune.booh ; 
On whofe fair revolutions wait, 
The obfequious motions of love’s fate. Crafmio, 
FOR'TUNED, adj. Supplied by fortune : 
Not th’ imperious (hew 
Of the full fortuned Caefar ever (hall 
Be brook’d with me. Shakefpeare. 
FOR'TUNE-HUNT'ER,/'. A man whofe employment 
is to enquire after women with great portions, to enrich 
himfelf by marrying them.—We mud, however, didin- 
guilh between fortune-hunters and fortune-dealers. Spe&ator. 
FOR'TUNE I'SLAND, or Good Fortune Island, 
a fmall iftand in the Indian Sea, near the fouth-wed of 
the idand of Sumatra. Lat. i. 35. S. Ion. 90. 25. E„ 
Greenwich. 
FOR'TUNELESS, adj. Unlucky.—Againd all hard 
mifhaps and fortunelejfc misfare. Spenfer. 
To FOR'TUNETELL, v. n. To pretend to the power 
of revealing futurity.—I’ll conjure you, I’ll foriunetdl 
you. Shakefpeare. —To reveal futurity: 
Here, while his canting drone-pipe fcan’d 
The rr.ydjc figures of her hand. 
He tipples palmedry, and dines 
On all her fortune-tilling lines. Clcaveland,. 
FOR'TUNE-TELLER, f One who cheats common 
people, by pretending to the knowledge o'f futurity.—» 
Had thou given credit to vain predictions of men, to 
dreams or Jortune-tellers, or gone about to know any fecret 
thing by lot i Duppa. 
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-fac’d villain, 
A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller. Shakefpeare. 
Perfons pretending to tell fortunes are to be punidied 
with a year’s imprifonmenr, and danding four times on 
the pillory, by dat. 9 Geo. II. c. 5. See the article Con- 
juration, vol. v. p. 93. 
. FOR'TUNE-TELLING,/ The praftice of telling 
fortunes.—We are dmple men ; we do not know what’s 
brought to pafs under the profedion of for tune-telling. • 
Shakefpeare. —The gypfies were to divide the money got 
by dealing linen, or by fortune-telling. Walton. 
To FOR'TUN 1 ZE, v. a. To regulate the fortune of: 
Fooles therefore 
They are, which fortunes doe by vows devize, 
Sith each unto himfelfe his life may fortunize. Spenfer „ 
This is a very expredive word, though fallen into difufe, 
FOR'TUNY, J. in old cudoms, a kind of tournament. 
FOR'TY, adj. [peopejvcig, Sax.] Four times ten.—» 
He that upon levity quits hi;-, itation, in hopes to be bet¬ 
ter, ’tis forty to one loles. LIEflrange. 
FOR'TY-DAYS-COURT, the court of attachment or 
woodmote, held before the veruerors of the fored ones 
every 
