‘Ev’ry Gamester winneth by the sport’: George Wither’s Emblem Lottery (1635)
George Wither, a notoriously controversial poet of the 17th century, wrote in the introductory text to his Collection of Emblemes in 1635 that he was adding a “harmless […] recreation”, referring to the lottery game he included in his book, which contains two hundred emblems. Wither goes to great le...
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Angles
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