ses of the game;
the result being a dialogue of speakers who only used exclamations--all
talking in chorus, but more to themselves than to each other. Lord
Anglesey observing Locke's occupation, asked him what he was writing.
'My Lord,' replied Locke, 'I am anxious not to lose anything you utter.'
This irony made them all blush, and put an end to the game.

M. Sallo, Counsellor to the Parliament of Paris, died, says Vigneul de
Marville, of a disease to which the children of the Muses are rarely
subject, and for which we find no remedy in Hippocrates and Galen;--he
died of a lingering disease after having lost 100,000 crowns at the
gaming table--all he possessed.

By way of diversion to his cankering grief, he started the well-known
_Journal des Savans_, but lived to write only 13 sheets of it, for he
was wounded to the death.(108)

(108) Melanges, d'Hist. et de Litt. i.

The physician Paschasius Justus was a deplorable instance of an
incorrigible gambler. This otherwise most excellent and learned man
having passed three-fourths of his life in a continual struggle with
vice, at length resolved to cure himself of the disease by occupying
his mind with a work which might be useful to his contemporaries and
posterity.(109) He began his book, but still he gamed; he finished it,
but the evil was still in him. 'I have lost everything but God!' he
exclaimed. He prayed for delivery from his soul's disease;(110) but
his prayer was not heard; he died like any gambler--more wretched than
reformed.

(109) 'De Alea, sive de curanda in pecuniam cupiditate,' pub. in 1560.

(110) Illum animi morbum, ut Deus tolleret, serio et frequenter optavit.

M. Dusaulx, author of a work on Gaming, exclaims therein--'I have
gambled like you, Paschasius, perhaps with greater fury. Like you I
write against gaming. Can I say that I am stronger than you, in more
critical circumstances?'(111)

(111) La Passion du Jeu.

What, then, is that mania which can be overcome neither by the love of
glory nor the study of wisdom!

The literary men of Greece and Rome rarely played any games but those of
skill, such as tennis, backgammon, and chess; and even in these it was
considered 'indecent' to appear too skilful. Cicero stigmatizes two
of his contemporaries for taking too great a delight in such games, on
account of their skill in playing them.(112)

(112) Ast alii, quia praeclare faciunt, vehementius quam causa postulat
delectantur, ut