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153. Excess hi gaming: 



virtuies per luxuriant et vanam gloriam ohruuntur : That is 

 to saye, where the vice of glotony hath domination, all 

 vertues by luxury and vayne glory are cast vnder : the 

 32 whiche sayinges wold in lykewise be remembred ; and 

 this me semeth sufficient for the .ii. poynte of the thre. 



Have some 

 recreation. 



Dionysius 

 Cato, Dis- 

 tich, iii. 7. 



Poor men 

 now play 

 too high. 



[Fol. 69.] I 2 



If men 

 played for 

 less, it 

 might then 

 be called 

 play. 



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But now 

 men lose 

 their lands 2 A. 

 and become 

 thieves. 



153. ^ Of outragious playe and game. 



It is conueniente for euery man, of what degree that he 

 be of, to haue playe & game accordynge to his degree. 

 For Cato sayth, Inlerpone tuis interdum gaudia curis: Amonge 

 thy charges and busynes thou muste haue sometyme ioye 

 and myrthe ; but nowe a-dayes it is doone ferre aboue 

 measure. For nowe a poore man in regarde wyll playe 

 as great game, at all maner games, as gentylman were 

 wont to do, or greater, and gentilmen as lordes, and 

 lordes as prynces, & ofte tymes the great estates wyll 

 call gentylmen or yomen to play with them at as great 

 game as they do, and they call it a disport, the whiche 

 me semeth a very trewe name to it, for it displeaseth 

 some of them er they departe, and specyall god, for 

 myspendynge of his goodes and tyme. But if they 

 played smalle games, that the poore man that playeth 

 myght beare it thoughe he loste, and bate not his 

 countenaunce, than myght it be called a good game, a 

 good playe, a good sporte, and a pastyme. But whan 

 one shall lose vpon a day, or vpon a nyght, as moche 

 money as wold fynde hym and all his house meate and 

 drynke a moneth or a quarter of a yere or more, that 

 maye be well called a disporte, or a displeasure, and ofte 

 tymes, by the meanes therof, it causeth theym to sell theyr 

 landes, dysheryte the heyres, and may fortune to fall to 

 thefte, robbery, or suche other, to the great hurte of them- 

 selfe, & of theyr chyldren, and to the displeasure of god : 

 and they so doinge, lyttel do they pondre or regarde the 



