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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 3 (of 5)

Note 175 — SCENE II.

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cheaters do at a rifling] Minsheu, in his Guide into the Tongues, explains rifling to be “a kinde of game, where he that in casting doth throw most on the dice, takes up all that is laid down:” see note on Webster’s Works, vol. iii. p. 246, where I have shewn that our old writers used rifle in the sense of raffle.

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