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And no marvel. For to be a Dicer importeth an habit, a profession, a practise, a trade: and to make a trade or a practise, or a mans living of any recreation is not commendable, though the recreation it self be such. But it is one thing to play at dice or cards, and another thing to be a Dicer or a Carder: as it is one thing to drink wine, and an other thing to be a ^kwine-drinker, or as we use to say, a ^lwinebibber. In a word as ^mthey are not all Courtiers that live in the Court (as we commonly take ⁿCourtiers ⟨p. 228⟩[…] ⟨p. 229⟩[…] ⟨p. 230⟩in no very good sense, ^oPrinces palaces are so much abused) so ^pthey are not all Dicers or Carders that at any time use cards or dice, but such only as ^qmake a gain or ^ra common trade of them; which to do is most base, and a course not by Christians only but by Heathens also, indeed generally condemned.

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