The Poetical Entertainer Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward] |
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Upon GAMING.
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Upon GAMING.
An Epigram.
'Tis strange, the Man who has enough in store,Should hazard what's his own, in hopes of more,
Since, if he wins, he only does possess,
More than he really wanted, when he'ad less;
But if Ill Fortune his Desires should cross,
The starving Wretch, too late, may mourn his Loss.
Then be content, when ye sufficient have,
Who covets more is but a greedy Knave,
And, to imprison'd Bags, a Turnkey and a Slave.
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