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§ 5. Thirdly, recreation must be used ingenuously, freely and liberally: ^lnot with any greedy desire of lucre and gain. For recreation is no trade or course of life, for a man to make a living of or to live by: As ^mit is not playing, but spending when men wast themselves that way: so ⁿit is not playing with, but preying upon those we seem to play with, when by such courses we pill them and make a spoil of them. It is to alter the very nature of the thing it self, to make a trade and a traffic of disport and pastime; to make not a lusorious, but a serious ⟨p. 250⟩L•t of it; yea more then a serious, ^oa sad and an heavy Lot (as it oft falleth out) of that ^pwhich should be merely for recreation and delight. Thou makest thy self both a Sinner, whosoever thou art, in so doing, by taking that from thy brother, that neither he ought to part with, nor thou to receive; and a Partner also with him in his sin, whereby he misspendeth, or hazardeth the misspending of that, which he ought otherwise to employ.

§ 5. Thirdly, recreation must be vsed ingenuously, freely and liberally: ^lnot with any greedy desire of lucre and gaine. For recreation is no trade or course of life, for a man to make a liuing of or to liue by: As ^mit is not playing, but spending when men wast themselues that way: so ⁿit is not playing with, but preying vpon those wee seeme to play with, when by such courses we pill them and make a spoile of them. It is to alter the very nature of the thing it selfe, to make a trade and a trafficke of disport and pastime; to make not a lusorious, but a serious