[167] In 1641, a pamphlet, in verse, against monopolizers and patentees, appeared with the following title: 'A Pack of Patentees, opened, shuffled, cut, dealt, and played.' The articles monopolized, or for which patents had been obtained, were coals, soap, starch, leather, salt, hops, gold wire, and horns. "We'll shuffle up the pack; those that before Did play at post and pair, must play no more." [168] About the same period the game of cards seems to have furnished titles to political pamphlets in other countries as well as in England. The following is the title of a Dutch pamphlet, without date, but apparently published about the time that the treaty of Westphalia was concluded, 1648: 'Het herstelde Verkeer-bert verbetert in een Lanterluy-spel.' From a passage in this pamphlet it appears that the game of Lanterloo was the same as that called _Labate_--the French _La Bête_, called "Beast," in Cotton's Compleat Gamester. "_Vlaming._ Was spel is dat, Vader Jems? ick weet niet dat ick dat oyt ghelesen heb, maer al die ghy genoemt hebt weet ick van. "_Vader Jems._ O Bredder! het is dat spel dat veeltijts genoemt werdt _Labate_, ofte om beter te seggen, _Lanterluy_." [169] The two following are of later date but in the same strain. 'A Murnival of Knaves: or Whiggism plainly display'd, and if not grown shameless, burlesqu'd out of countenance, a Poem. 1683.' 'Win at first, lose at last; or the Game of Cards which were shuffled by President Bradshaw, cut by Col. Hewson the Cobler, and played by Oliver Cromwell and Ireton till the Restoration of Charles II. 1707'--A Murnival, at the game of Gleek, was all the four aces, kings, queens, or knaves. [170] Poems on State Affairs, vol. iii, p. 25. Edit. 1704. "Tricon is, at cards, that which we now call a gleek of Kings, Queens, Knaves, &c., viz. three of them in one hand together."--Howell's Edition of Cotgrave's French and English Dictionary, 1673. The term _Gleek_ is probably derived from the German _Gleich_, signifying _like_; thus the _Gleek_ was a certain number of cards of a _like_ kind. See further illustrations of the word Gleek in Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic Words.