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The Link between Fashion and Gambling from Mary Robinson’s

Modern Manners, a Poem. In Two Cantos (1793)

Mary Robinson’s Poem “The Gamester” (1800)

from Robinson, Mary. Modern Manners, A Poem. In Two Cantos (London: James Evans, 1793).

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O, Fashion! delegate of taste and wit,

Oft do I see thee triumph in the pit;