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The Gamester (1753) by Edward Moore
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moveables? nor useless trinkets? Bawbles, locked up in caskets, to
starve their owners? I have ventured deeply for you.

_Bev._ Therefore this heart-ake; for I am lost beyond all hope.

_Stu._ No : means may be found to save us. Jarvis is rich. Who made
him so? This is no time for ceremony.

_Bev._ And is it for dishonesty? The good old man! Shall I rob Him
too? My friend would grieve for't. No; let the little that he has,
buy food and cloathing for him.

_Stu._ Good morning then.
[_Going._

_Bev._ So hasty! Why, then good morning.

_Stu._ And when we meet again, upbraid me. Say it was I that tempted
you. Tell Lewson so; and tell him I have wronged you: he has
suspicions of me, and will thank you.

_Bev_, No; we have been companions in a rash voyage, and the same
storm has wrecked us both. Mine shall be self-upbraidings.

_Stu._ And will they feed us? You deal unkindly by me. I have sold
and borrowed for you, while land or credit lasted; and now, when
fortune should be tried, and my heart whispers me success, I am
deserted; turned loose to beggary, while You have hoards.

_Bev._ What hoards? Name them, and take them.
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