Fortuna, the goddess, is represented on ancient monuments with a wheel in her hand, emblematical of her inconstancy.
“Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.”
Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI., iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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