id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
A37535	Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.	The anatomy of play written by a worthy and learned gent. ; dedicated to his father, to shew his detestation of it.	1651		.xml	application/xml	5651	151	58	Play was first invented , for the recreation of mans minde , and the refreshing of his spirits , having bin tyred and spent with any serious affaires , that so being as it were a bowe unbent , they might recover their former strength and vigor ; certainly in this respect , moderate recreation is not onely allowable , but commendable ; being of the same use ( though in an inferior degree ) as rest , sleep , or meat . To define then what play is ( not in the concrete , for so it is a mixture of almost all vices but in the abstract ) Gaming is an evil from which arises a most certain losse , and this losse is threefold , of time , of credit , of money ; the first and second unavoidable , the last only casuall but rashly avoided : these three losses have a respective relation to the three parts of man his soul , his person , his Estate .	cache/A37535.xml	txt/A37535.txt
