By the seventeenth century, Fortune had become more an emblematic encapsulation of certain ideas about fate and chance than a goddess having influence on the world.
In his emblem book, George Wither offers a summary of conventions already long associated with the figure and provides an explicit moral reading that emphasizes Puritan values.
The linking of Fortune with the moon goes back to classical times: Fortune is like the moon in being always and quickly moving, and she is the goddess who reigns in the sublunar realm, the world of change.
