The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . /1^-er jj^—? ?A l\\y^ ^i tent atiJ Coolers atwofke. SCENES ILI-USTRATING THE GREKNI^AND TRADEFrom an engraving in Churchills Voyages, 1704 228o HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xix The new form wliich covctousness had taken furnishrcl the comicpoets and satirists with an excellent subject ; nor was liial subject theless welcome to them because some of the most unscrupulous and mostsuccessful of the new race of y^amesters were men in sad coloured clothesand lank hair, men who called cards the Devils books, men who thouL;hlit a sin and a s
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . /1^-er jj^—? ?A l\\y^ ^i tent atiJ Coolers atwofke. SCENES ILI-USTRATING THE GREKNI^AND TRADEFrom an engraving in Churchills Voyages, 1704 228o HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xix The new form wliich covctousness had taken furnishrcl the comicpoets and satirists with an excellent subject ; nor was liial subject theless welcome to them because some of the most unscrupulous and mostsuccessful of the new race of y^amesters were men in sad coloured clothesand lank hair, men who called cards the Devils books, men who thouL;hlit a sin and a scanilal to win or lose twopence over a backgammonboard. It was in the last drama of Shadwell that tlie h)-pocrisy andknavery of these speculators was, for the first time, exposed to publicridicule. He died in November i 692, just before his Stockjobbers came(Ml the stage ; and the epilogue was spoken by an actor dressed in deepmourninLT. The best scene is that in which four or five stern Noncon-formists, clad in the full Puritan costume, after discussing the prospectsof the Mousetrap Compan\ and the Meakilling
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