sentences:  The game's high stakes, along with its devastations, is the subject of Susanna Centlivre's 1705 comedy "The Basset Table".The English made basset quite different from what it was in France where, by royal edict, the public at large were not allowed to play at more than a franc or ten-penny bank, – and the losses or gains could not bring desolation to a family.In England the punters (gamblers) could do as they liked, staking from one guinea to one hundred guineas and more, upon a card.