The Importance of Amusements

Amusement has become an occupation. Can there be any state of mind more painful, gloomy and melancholy than that of gamesters? In the end there is no pleasure in such play except in winning. It is not pleasure wicked when it can only be obtained at the cost of loss and vexation to one's companion. For these three reasons gaming is prohibited. One day when St. Louis was sick he heard tell that the count of Anjou his brother and Monsieur Gautier de Nimois were gaming. Rising from his sickbed he took the tables, dice and part of the money and cast them out of the window into the sea. Never have I joined myself with