For I Tom Tosspot do use this trade doubtless:

From morning till night I sit tossing the black bowl,[341]

Then come I home, and pray for my father's soul.

Saying my prayers with wounds, blood, guts, and heart:

Swearing and staring, thus play I my part.

If any poor man have in a whole week earn'd one groat,

He shall spend it in one hour in tossing the pot.

I use to call servants and poor men to my company,

And make them spend all they have unthriftily;

So that my company they think to be so good,