Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… Bait when Cash runs low, that seldom fails; And when the Fair One can’t the Debt defray In Sterling Coin, does Sterling Beauty pay. 6 6 . James Shirley, The Gamester (London: John Norton, 1637). In Susanna Centlivre ’s The Basset Table … or—the Rook's Pigeon'd’, 1797, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12595 Hazard was very fashionable among the Beau monde . It was played against the bank on a special table, with two dice and with rolls of coins as the stakes could be …
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