No sooner named, than one cries out,—These stagers

Come in good time, to make more work for wagers.

}

{ The town divides, if it will take or no;

{ The courtiers bet, the cits, the merchants too;

{ A sign they have but little else to do.

Bets, at the first, were fool-traps; where the wise,

Like spiders, lay in ambush for the flies:

}

{ But now they're grown a common trade for all,