A Sequel to Don Juan — page 121: what you’re looking at

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112 A SEQUEL TO CX. There’s nothing that evokes th’ atrocious spirit Of frail humanity so soon as gaming : | All the accursed feelings men inherit From their first parent, and which brook no taming’, Burst fiercely forth just when the greatest merit Were to encounter each reverse inflaming, With an exterior calm. There’s not a vice Which is not fostered or produced by dice. CXI. Now all the actions of those gamblers naughty— Vredenburg, Bower, Clanricarde, Forbes and Baring — Bond, Crockford, Acland, Rosenberg, and Cauty— How some are famed for craft, and some for daring’ ; © And how whenever one a pigeon sought, he Plucked him with hand as skilful as unsparing,— Are.they not written in the Satirist 2— Go, reader, and peruse it if you list ! CXIL. But to our boarding-house. An anxious group At eve around a little table met ; The parson was the great man of the troop, For none more skilfully knew when to bet : He’d also learnt how to sauter la coupe,* And therefore never lost the stake he set. Thus every night did he come off the winner | Of funds to pay the morrow’s punch and dinner * To sauter la coupe isto turn up the king at pleasure, or to obtain the privelege of the deal by means of cutting a superior card to that of an antagonist—both feats being the results of skill or pre-arrangement. Lord de Roos, a member of the English aristocracy, was detected in the act of cheating by these means. COPMICLOO KS. CON