_Some will thinke perhaps, that I have purposely invented this =Game=, that I might finde meanes to reprove mens =vices=, without being suspected, (as I have hitherto unjustly beene) to ayme at particular persons: For, if any who are =notoriously Guiltie=, shall by drawing their =Chances=, among other Companions, be so fitted with =Lots=, (which may now and then happen) that those =Vices= be therby intimated to the by-standers, of which the world knowes them guilty; they do therin make their owne =Libels=; and, may (I hope) bee laughed at without my blame. If not; I doe here warne all such as are worthily suspected of =Haynous crimes=, and =Scandalous conversations=, either to forbeare these =Lotteries=; or to excuse me if they be justly shamed by their own =Act=._ _Having thus declared the Reason of this =Invention=, and made these Anticipations; every man hath his choice, whether hee will make use of those =Lotteries= or no; hee that will, is left to his =Chance=, of which, how hee shall make tryall, direction is given in the two last Pages of this =Booke=._ This _Game_ occasions not the frequent crime, Of _Swearing_, or mispending of our _Time_; Nor losse of money: For, the _Play_ is _short_, And, ev’ry _Gamester_ winneth by the sport. Wee, therefore, know it may aswell become The _Hall_, the _Parlor_, or the _Dining-roome_, As _Chesse_, or _Tables_; and, we thinke the _Price_ Will be as low; because, it needs no _Dice_. [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: _What I =WAS=, is passed-by; What I =AM=, away doth flie; What I =SHAL BEE=, none do see; Yet, in =that=, my =Beauties= bee._ ] The AVTHORS Meditation upon sight of his PICTVRE.