would the gamester's anxious ardour cool, Dull every deal, and stagnant every pool.

Those who write not, and yet all writers nick, Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick.

Men caught drunk had their hair cut off; blasphemous and reckless gamesters were branded with a red-hot iron; and the women were shut up in separate tents.

I should have said you were by nature a bold gamester."

[Footnote 1: H. Jansen, a celebrated gamester, who cheated the Duke of Bedford of an immense sum: Pope hints at that affair in this line, Or when a duke to Jansen punts at White's.]

This makes him venture to talk and scribble, as chouses do to play with cunning gamesters until they are cheated and laughed at.

But he had started a game at which two could play and had challenged a more deft and daring gamester than himself.

It was the daring play of a desperate gamester, and nearly checkmated his opponents.

Arriving at La Roquelle, our cicerone pointed out to us the ruined walls of what once had been a very splendid chateau; its former owner being an inveterate gamester, having lost large sums of money, at length staked the chateau to an Englishman, who won it.

For example: a clergyman says to a lucky gamester, (1.)

She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber; who affirm that they have no pleasure in winning; that they like to win one game, and lose another; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card-table, but are indifferent whether they play or no; and will desire an adversary, who has slipt a wrong card, to take it up and play another.

We are mad gamesters in this world below, All hopes on one uncertain die to throw; How vain is man's pursuit, with passion blind, To follow that which leaves us still behind!

There is not a house where they do not play, nor is any one at all acceptable unless he does so, too, a professed gamester being the most advantageous character a man can have at Paris.

There was a look in the Travis eye that boded ill for somebody, and one by one the more prudent gamesters withdrew.

The only amusement in which Henri IV indulged freely and earnestly was play; and he was so reckless a gamester, that at no period has the Court of France been so thoroughly demoralized by that frightful vice as throughout his reign.

A gamester, however sanguine, sees that he may lose his money, but he does not see all the ill consequences to himself and others which the loss of his money will involve.

Three years after, he removed to Lincoln's Inn, where he continued occasionally to gamble, and was sometimes punished for his pains, being plundered by more skilful or unscrupulous gamesters, but did not forget his studies.

," says the same historian, "were probably some of the chief sources of supplying the Roman market with British slavesprisoners taken in war were added to the numberthere might be also among them some unfortunate gamesters, who, after having lost all their goods, at length staked themselves, their wives, and their children."

It is the shame-brand upon our century's brow, that such a commerce is become a political power on earth; and unscrupulous gamesters, speculating upon the ruin of their neighbours, hold the political thermometer of peace and war in their criminal hands.