That stands upon the rolling restless stone,—[7]
Flu. By your patience, ancient Pistol. Fortune is painted plind, with a muffler before her eyes,[8] to signify to you that fortune is plind; And she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and variations, and mutabilities: and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls:—In good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description of fortune: fortune, look you, is an excellent moral.
Pist. Fortune is Bardolph’s foe, and frowns on him;
For he has stolen a pix,[9] and hang’d must ’a be.([B])
A damned death!
Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,
Crosses to L.H.
But Exeter hath given the doom of death,
For pix of little price.
Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy voice;