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But here is a question moved among the learned, whether a man may play for, or wager ought in play. And it is a question that requireth a larger discourse throughly to discuss it, then this present work, growing already too great, will well permit. Some utterly condemn it: and I have seen of late in writing ²along discourse containing sundry arguments tending thereunto: of which yet (^a to speak my mind freely, and ingenuously without exception to the Author, whom I think reverently of otherwise, though in judgement dissenting from him herein) I am not able to apprehend the force and validity. Neither indeed can I discern ought that should make it unlawful for a couple of familiar friends to put it to the event of a game, whether of them shall part with such a trifle to the other, as either of them may spend lawfully at that present upon his pleasure, or they might otherwise well freely bestow either on other.

But here is a question moued among the learned, whether a man may play for, or wager ought in play. And it is a question that requireth a larger discourse throughly to discusse it, then this present worke, growing already too great, will well permit. Some vtterly condemne it: and I haue seene of late in writing ²along discourse containing sundry arguments tending thereunto: of which yet (^a to speake my minde freely, and ingenuously without exception to the Author, whom I thinke reuerently of otherwise, though in iudgement dissenting from him herein) I am not able to apprehend the force and validitie. Neither indeed can I discerne ought that should make it vnlawfull for a couple of familiar friends to put it to the euent of a game, whether of them shall part with such a trifle to the other, as either of them may spend lawfully at that present vpon his pleasure, or they might otherwise wel freely bestow either on other.

1. 2M.W on occasion of Samsons wager. Judg 14.12.