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... and other practices like the same; a myrror very necessary for all young gentilmen and other sodenly enabled by worldly abundance, to loke in. Newly set forth for theire behoufe.
This work contains a vivid description of the tricks and practices in vogue amongst gamblers of the sixteenth century. Written by a Puritan preacher, it is a scathing critique of the gambling culture during Elizabethan England and the moral outrage surrounding it. It has many curious allusions to the manners and customs of the period. Featuring firsthand accounts of dice games and their negative societal effects. The accounts of false dice are peculiarly valuable, as comprising fuller explanations of terms used by Shakespeare, and other old dramatists and writers. The mysteries of gourds and fullams, high men and low men are here satisfactorily revealed.
1st edition 1532, reprinted 1850; PDF 24 pages.
word count: 13445 which is equivalent to 53 standard pages of text
