that Fate or Fortune does not always side with good people in life:
And never dare misfortune cross her foot Unless she do it under this excuse:
That she is issue to afaithless Jew. (35-37)
Lorenzo also depictsFortuneas an unfair female force (personification), and he emphasizes her usually negative role by referring to her as Misfortune. The first use of the pronounshe(in line 36) refers to Fortune, but the second occurrence of the pronounshe(in line 37) refers to Jessica. Lorenzo means that if anything bad ever happens to Jessica – if Jessica ever experiences any kind of misfortune – the reason will not be because of her character or manners. Jessica is a good person, and she has never done anything in her life to deserve any kind of hardship orsorrow.