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Extraordinarily a man may sometime also by the Game it self receive gain; as thus: Suppose a man of good wealth either being evil at ease or otherwise desirous to recreate himself, calleth in a poor man from his trade or his work that he is otherwise employed in, to accompany him in his game, which he cannot use without company; it ⟨p. 251⟩is not unlawful for the poor man so accompanying the rich, to receive some gain from him, as a reward of his employment with him, and in lieu of that loss, which he sustaineth by intermitting of his own work. But among equals, or others ordinarily, that play together for mutual recreation and delight, for the one to enrich, or to desire to enrich himself by the others damage and loss, ^rit is a note of a base and an illiberal disposition, and against the nature of disport, which ought to be free.

Extraordinarily a man may sometime also by the Game it selfe receiue gaine; as thus: Suppose a man of good wealth either being euill at ease or otherwise desirous to recreate himselfe, calleth in a poore man from his trade or his worke that he is otherwise imployed in, to accompanie him in his game, which he cannot vse without companie; it ⟨p. 251⟩is not vnlawfull for the poore man so accompanying the rich, to receiue some gaine from him, as a reward of his imployment with him, and in liew of that losse, which he sustaineth by intermitting of his owne worke. But among equals, or others ordinarily, that play togither for mutuall recreation and delight, for the one to enrich, or to desire to enrich himselfe by the others damage and losse, ^rit is a note of a base and an illiberall disposition, and against the nature of disport, which ought to be free.

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