fate

first corrupts the counsel of the man it means to ruin — and, worst of all, makes his misfortune look well deserved.

Recast in definition form from: “Velleius saide trulie, the force of Fates is inevitable, whose estate they determine to confound, his counsels they corrupt, and againe, the matter is so, that God when hee will change a mans good estate, taketh away his understanding: And (which is most wretched of all) he causeth that the miserie which befalleth is reputed to happen most deservedlie.”

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