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Yet is it lamentable to consider how common abuse is in this kind, both at these games, and at others, among men of all sorts. Some one great man sometime at a race, or a sitting, or a match at bowls, or an afternoons cock-fight, casting more away then would have maintained many of honest means in good estate for a twelve-month and more: so that by means hereof not the poor alone remain unrelieved, and ¹their servants unrewarded, but their rents are so racked and their estates so improved, that their Tenants that hold of them are thereby also impoverished, and yet themselves as ^xPharaoh's lean Kine when they had eaten up the fat ones, ^ynever a whit the richer, or better able to do King or Country service, for all that they have scraped and gathered together in that sort.

Yet is it lamentable to consider how common abuse is in this kinde, both at these games, and at others, among men of all sorts. Some one great man sometime at a race, or a sitting, or a match at boules, or an afternoones cock-fight, casting more away then would haue maintained many of honest meanes in good estate for a twelué-moneth and more: so that by meanes hereof not the poore alone remaine vnreleiued, and ¹their seruants vnrewarded, but their rents are so racked and their estates so improued, that their Tenants that hold of them are thereby also impouerished, and yet themselues as ^xPharaos leane Kine when they had eaten vp the fat ones, ^yneuer a whit the richer, or better able to doe King or Countrey seruice, for all that they haue scraped and gathered together in that sort.

1. 1•simplexne suror sestertia cent•m Perdère, & horrnti tunitam non reddere feruo? Ivanal. sat. 1.