The Gamester (1753) by Edward Moore
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page 69 of 132 (52%)
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SCENE V. _changes to a room in the gaming-house._ _Enter BEVERLEY, and STUKELY._ _Bev._ Whither would you lead me? [_Angrily._ _Stu._ Where we may vent our curses. _Bev._ Ay, on yourself, and those damned counsels that have destroyed me. A thousand fiends were in that bosom, and all let loose to tempt me--I had resisted else. _Stu._ Go on, Sir. I have deserved this from you. _Bev._ And curses everlasting. Time is too scanty for them. _Stu._ What have I done? _Bev._ What the arch-devil of old did--soothed with false hopes, for certain ruin. _Stu._ Myself unhurt; nay, pleased at your destruction--So your words mean. Why, tell it to the world: I am too poor to find a friend in't. _Bev._ A friend! What's he? I had a friend. |
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