As You Like It

"Let us sit and mock the good housewives Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally" please explain this whole sentence

said by Celia to Rosalind

-scene II of Act I

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CELIA

Let’s go find that hussy, Fortune, and and mock her till she starts distributing her gifts more equally.

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THis has to do with fortune giving men all the advantages in life. THat "hussy" fortune needs to start dealing out more to women.

thanks a lot!!

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