rom his former
manner of life.'

'He was buried in the Abbey Church with great ceremony: a solemn hymn
was sung by the charity-school children, three clergymen preceded the
coffin, the pall was supported by aldermen, and the Masters of the
Assembly-Rooms followed as chief mourners; while the streets were
filled and the housetops covered with spectators, anxious to witness the
respect paid to the venerable founder of the prosperity of the city of
Bath.'(115)

(115) The Book of Days, Feb. 3.

The following are the chief anecdotes told of Beau Nash.

A giddy youth, who had resigned his fellowship at Oxford, brought his
fortune to Bath, and, without the smallest skill, won a considerable
sum; and following it up, in the next October added four thousand pounds
to his former capital. Nash one night invited him to supper, and offered
to give him fifty guineas to forfeit twenty every time he lost two
hundred at one sitting. The young man refused, and was at last undone.

The Duke of B---- loved play to distraction. One night, chagrined at a
heavy loss, he pressed Nash to tie him up from deep play in future.
The beau accordingly gave his Grace one hundred guineas on condition to
receive ten thousand whenever he lost that amount at one sitting. The
duke soon lost eight thousand at Hazard, and was going to throw for
three thousand more, when Nash caught the dice-box, and entreated the
peer to reflect on the penalty if he lost. The duke desisted for that
time; but ere long, losing considerably at Newmarket, he willingly paid
the penalty.

When the Earl of T---- was a youth he was passionately fond of play.
Nash undertook to cure him. Conscious of his superior skill, he engaged
the earl in single play. His lordship lost his estate, equipage,
everything! Our generous gamester returned all, only stipulating for the
payment of L5000 whenever he might think proper to demand it. Some
time after his lordship's death, Nash's affairs being on the wane, he
demanded it of his heirs, _WHO PAID IT WITHOUT HESITATION_.

Nash one day complained of his ill luck to the Earl of Chesterfield,
adding that he had lost L500 the last night. The earl replied, 'I don't
wonder at your _LOSING_ money, Nash, but all the world is surprised
where you get it to lose.'

'The Corporation of Bath so highly respected Nash, that the Chamber
voted a marble statue of him, which was erected in the Pump-room,
between the busts of Newton and Pope; this gave