or by palming, topping, &c. Note by the way,
that when they have you at the tavern and think you a sure "bubble,"
they will many times purposely lose some small sum to you the first
time, to engage you more freely to _BLEED_ (as they call it) at the
second meeting, to which they will be sure to invite you.

(11) It appears that false dice were originally made at _Fulham;_ hence
so called, high and low fulhams; the high ones were the numbers 4, 5, 6.

'A gentleman whom ill-fortune had hurried into passion, took a box and
dice to a side-table, and then fell to throwing by himself; at length
he swears with an emphasis, "D--e, now I throw for nothin;, I can win a
thousand pounds; but when I lay for money I lose my all."

'If the house find you free to box, and a constant caster, you shall be
treated below with suppers at night, and caudle in the morning, and
have the honour to be styled, "a lover of the house," whilst your money
lasts, which certainly will not be long.

'Most gamesters begin at small games, and by degrees, if their money or
estates hold out, they rise to great sums; some have played first all
their money, then their rings, coach and horses, even their wearing
clothes and _perukes;_ and then, such a farm; and at last, perhaps a
lordship.

'You may read in our histories, how Sir Miles Partridge played at dice
with King Henry the Eighth, for Jesus Bells (so called), which were the
greatest in England, and hung in a tower of St Paul's church, and won
them; whereby he brought them to ring in his pocket; but the ropes
afterwards catched about his neck; for, in Edward the Sixth's days, he
was hanged for some criminal offences.(12)

(12) The clochier in Paul's Churchyard--a bell-house, four square,
builded of stone, with four bells; these were called _Jesus_ Bells. The
same had a great spire of timber, covered with lead, with the image of
St Paul on the top, but was pulled down by Sir Miles Partridge, Kt, in
the reign of Henry VIII. The common speech then was that he did set L100
upon a cast at dice against it, and so won the said clochier and bells
of the king. And then causing the bells to be broken as they hung, the
rest was pulled down, and broken also. This man was afterwards executed
on Tower Hill, for matters concerning the Duke of Somerset, in the year
1551, the 5th of Edward VI.--Stowe, B. iii. 148.

'Sir Arthur Smithhouse is yet fresh in memory. He had a fair estate,
which in a few years h