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Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theologicalOf the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall
Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theological; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolns Inn, and now pastor of Rotherhith.Of the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolnes Inne, and now pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin, 1619
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 4. The fourth evil these games are charged with is the iwasting of wealth and of mens worldly estates, that which should sustain and support them and theirs, and wherewith they should be helpful and beneficial to others. For there is no game that men spend and wast more upon then these, at which many make away Land and living, goods and chattels, jewels and plate, and their apparel from their backs. Yea *some when they have plaid all away, have at length staked them selves, if they lost, to be made Slaves: in so much that these games have oft been the very bane of great personages, and the ruin of great houses.
§ 4. The fourth euill these games are charged with is the iwasting of wealth and of mens worldly estates, that which should sustaine and support them and theirs, and wherewith they should be helpfull and beneficiall to others. For there is no game that men spend and wast more vpon then these, at which many make away Land and liuing, goods and chattels, iewels and plate, and their apparell from their backes. Yea *some when they haue plaid all away, haue at length staked them selues, if they lost, to be made Slaues: in so much that these games haue oft beene the very bane of great personages, and the ruine of great houses.
- iDan. de lud. al•ae, c. 9. rat. 6. & Justinian. C•d. l. 3. •i•. 23 leg. 2. — neque enim loculis comitantibus •itur Ad casum •abulae, posita sed luditur ar•a. Ivven. sat. 1. Si quis •abet nummos veniens, exibit inanis. Vitalis scholin catalict.