in the game of Basset, doubling the stake on a winning card.
“What pity ʹtis those conquering eyes
Which all the world subdue,
Should, while the lover gazing dies.
Be only on alpue.”
Etherege: Basset.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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