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Tables (Backgammon / Cribbage)

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“Tables” probably refers to Backgammon, but on another occasion Wheatley also decides it is Cribbage. Latham & Matthews say “backgammon and other similar games”.

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Last updated by Phil Gyford on 15 September 2008

1893 text

[Tables is] The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others. The following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on backgammon

Man’s life’s a game at tables, and he may Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play.

Wit’s Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.

This text was written as a footnote in the 1893 Wheatley transcription of the diary, the same one that is used for the diary entries on this site.

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