Compare also:
O I am fortune's fool.
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, III. i. 129.
Let your study
Be to content your lord, who hath received you
Shakespeare, King Lear, I. i. 277-9.At fortune's alms.
So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
And shut myself up in some other course,
Shakespeare, Othello, III. iv. 120-2.To fortune's alms.
In W 'All haile sweet Poet' is followed at once by these lines, presumably written by Thomas Woodward and possibly in reply to the above. They are found standing by themselves in B, O'F, P, S96. In these they are apparently ascribed to Donne. I print from W: