Our English gamesters scorne to stake

1.

Our English Gamesters scorne to stake
   Their clothes as Indians do,
 Nor yet themselves, alas, yet both
  Stake soules and lose them to.
2.

O fearfull Games! the divell stakes
  But Strawes and Toyes and Trash,
 (For what is All, compar'd with Christ,
  But Dogs meat and Swines wash?)
3

Man stakes his Jewell-darling soule ,
  (His owne most wretched foe)
 Ventures, and loseth all in sport
  At one most dreadfull throw.
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