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ARe you dispo∣sed to be merrie and sport the time away alittle?
What sirs! are you all asleepe?
Let vs go to some game.
Lets go vvalke.
Tis fine vval∣king indeed, the streets are so foule and filthie.
O what fine vvether it is to studie neere the fire side on a paire of new cards.
I had thought you would haue sayd on some new booke.
I say, on a new paire of cards.
Lets rather go to tables.
I could neuer yet play at tables.
Lets to dice.
I cannot dice it neither.
Lets play at draughts, or at chests then.
No: but vve vvill play at cards.
At cards, be it.
At all plaies, theres but the hazard.
I dare not play vvith you, Tripit-taintie, you are a little too craftie a companion.
You are a fret∣ter, a vvrangler, a brangler, a foulemouthed vil∣lain, and for nothing you will take exceptions, and quarrell.
You teare, you sweare, you forsweare.
Thou art a prating rascall, and liest in thy throat in saying so. I play fairer play then thou doest.
By your sleue ye••
we vvill none of your com∣panie: For you haue an ill report.
For vvhat? To be a corni∣fler, a coozener, they say to, that you carrie alwaies with you a bung card in your pocket to coosen simple companions.
Whosoeuer shall say so, lies in his throat.
Farewell my friend, I would be leath to play in thy companie, for thou doest no∣thing but picke quar∣rels and vvrangle.
Whiff, my friend, my man is fluced away.
What a companion? you haue sent him away with a flea in his eare.
Well, shall we too it now?
But thou Lancelot, so soone as thou hast gotten six∣pence, you do giue them ouer, with whom you play.
That is rather to deceaue and mocke, then to play.
You say true indeed: For if I loose once sixpence, I am tied by the foote till the Cow come home.
Let vs sit downe then as vve were vvoont to do, crosse-legged, ho.
Geue me this chaire, to the end I may loose at more ease.
Shuffle the cards.
Cut, He shall deale vvho lifts the highest card, I shall deale.
Lets play at Primero.
No, no, wee will play at Spanish triumph.
Fie vpon it, tis euerie common alehouse game in Eng∣land.
At Sant then.
No, for Gods sake, vve will play at the
Lance-knights game.
Well tis done, cut the cards.
Steuen you cut at the boung card.
I know not what it means truly.
Theres for thee An∣tonie, a dame without blame.
I haue a king with∣out a kingdome.
Looke this is mine owne.
What, maister knaue of clubs, you are vvel∣come.
Will you vvin me six pence?
Here is a ten, a nine, an ace, the foure of spades, the three of pickes, the two of harts.
A plague of the cards, I shal not turne vp one of these cards.
I thinke that there is no more kings or queenes in the decke.
O heres the brother of Robin Hood come.
You haue lost the game.
Come six pence for me.
Come a shilling to me.
Ile lay a vvager, if I had a hundred crownes in my pursse, I should set them packing to day at play.
Leaue thy pra∣ting, if thou vvilt play, stake.
I know if I had a kingdome I should loose it now.
Play no more then.
Yet must I needs play.
Deale the cards with a plague.
What a vengeance, I shall loose as much to day, as my Lord maior is vvorth.
Theres an eight for you.
I will lay on this eights head, eight crowns. I will then cast vp the cards.
Play but six onely, and I will hold them.
Play then, Take a card for your selfe,
Thou hast a fiue.
Play faire play and be hangd, looke not on the bottom card.
Whats this in the name of God?
God vvas neuer plaier at cards.
O fortune happie now be luckie.
One fiue fingers now, to get me fiue crowns.
Here tis by God.
This is mine.
Let my monie alone com∣panion.
And why?
Go to, go to, I say.
Sblood, you shall haue none of my monie.
And wherefore?
Therefore, I say.
I will be iudged.
Say companion, hath he playd faire play?
I thinke so surely.
Did not he take the bottom card?
I vvill be iudged by him.
No truly: he hath woon the monie, and you haue lost it.
Take it then.
These cards are marked on the backs,
Thou knowest them all.
The greatest part of them truly, I know by the faces vvhen I looke vpon them.
Peraduenture also by the backs.
I vvill cast these cards into the fire.
They shall loose me no more monie.
VVhat haue you lost all at one cut of cards?
Tis no matter, I will play no more at cards.
I haue lost inough for one sitting.