Note 77 — MR. BURKE. ON MOVING RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 22, 1775. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Note 77, p. 289.—The quotation is from Juvenal i., l. 90, and refers to the habit of the Roman gambler. Gifford renders the passage:
“For now no more the pocket’s stores supply The boundless charges of the desperate die, The chest itself is staked.”