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So that it is not the games themselves that are simply condemned, but ^dthe evil and hurtful usage of them, to wit, either ^ethe immoderate and customary, or ^fthe excessive and expensive use of them; as both by the letter of the law it self plainly appeareth, ^gthe best Interpreters according therewith; and as the Authors also that cite them do themselves some of them confess. ^hA man, well saith one of them, is not to be condemned, if being weakly or evil at ease he recreate himself by playing at Hazard, so he hazard not his monies: for it is especially to be observed, what the scope was of those laws, that ⟨p. 203⟩forbade such kind of games: now that was that men should not wast their estates: to which purpose it is enacted, that no man hazard above a shilling: this was the scope and drift of the Law, to provide that monies might not be misspent. Which if they be not, then the Law is not broken.

So that it is not the games themselues that are simply condemned, but ^dthe euill and hurtfull vsage of them, to wit, either ^ethe immoderate and customary, or ^fthe excessiue and expensiue vse of them; as both by the letter of the law it selfe plainly appeareth, ^gthe best Interpreters according therewith; and as the Authors also that cite them doe themselues some of them confesse. ^h