Religion

Book IV, 60: On SORTIO

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV

Religion

Sortio, that makst a Trade of gaming, know
Thou breakst two great command'ments at a throw:
The third thou break'st by thy abuse of Lot;
Thou breakst the Tenth, that bids thee Covet not:
Now tell me, Sortio, whether sins most high,
He that playes faire, or he that helps a Die?

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