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§ 3. And thus may we keep within compass for the measure or quantity both of time and expense. Now ¹for the manner of using game further consideration would be had. For therein also many offend, when they are too eager upon play, or are overmuch transported and carried away with delight in it; when, as one well saith, ^gthey either ^hsleep at it, or are drunk at it: that is, when it either so occupieth mens minds that it maketh them unwatchful against the motions of sin, or so overcometh them with the delight of it, or other passions procured by it, that it maketh them break forth into outrage of swearing, blaspheming, fretting, cursing, and quarrelling, and such courses as sobriety in such cases would never admit. For ⁱa man may be drunk as well without wine as ⟨p. 245⟩with wine; with the dry smoke of Tobacco as well as with drink. As one saith well of prosperity, that it so transporteth some, that they are even ^kas drunk with it; and ^lsome sorts of mirth and ^mmusic are said to make men little better: So we may well say that men are drunk with game, when they are so addicted thereunto, that it stirreth up in them such distempered passions as men soberly minded cannot but condemn and abhor, and which they themselves could not but dislike in themselves, if they were not for the present besides themselves.

§ 3. And thus may we keepe within compasse for the measure or quantitie both of time and expence. Now ¹for the manner of vsing game further consideration would be had. For therein also many offend, when they are too eager vpon play, or are ouermuch transported and caried away with delight in it; when, as one well saith,