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The rule then here is that we use not these games unless we can rest quiet and content with the event of them: and again, if we can, that we do so use them, that we may not be tempted to disquiet and discontent thereupon. Agreeable whereunto are those golden rules of our gracious Sovereign concerning play to his son; ^tFirst ere ye play, consider ye do it only for your recreation, and resolve to hazard the loss of all that ye play; and next, for that cause play no more then you care to cast among Pages: otherwise if you cannot keep these rules, my counsel is that all-utterly ye abstain from these plays: for neither a mad passion for loss, nor falsehood used for desire of gain can be called play;

The rule then here is that we vse not these games vnlesse we can rest quiet and content with the euent of them: and againe, if we can, that we doe so vse them, that we may not be tempted to disquiet and discontent thereupon. Agreeable whereunto are those golden rules of our gratious Soueraigne concerning play to his sonne; ^tFirst ere ye play, consider ye doe it onely for your recreation, and resolue to hazard the losse of all that ye play; and next, for that cause play no more then you care to cast among Pages: otherwise if you cannot keepe these rules, my counsell is that all-vtterly yee abstaine from these plaies: for neither a mad passion for losse, nor falshood vsed for desire of gaine can be called play;

1. tJacob. Rex [Greek or Hebrew] lib. 3.Iacob. Rex 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 lib. 3.

§ 8. Sixthly and lastly these recreations are to be used reverently and religiously, that is, with such due reverence and regard of Gods majesty, and of his presence and providence, as the nature of the business that we are about doth either exact or admit. For Christian men are to do all things whatsoever