[190] Whist, a poem in twelve Cantos. By Alexander Thomson, Esq., p. 21. Second Edition, 1792. [191] Mr. Barrington seems to have obtained his information respecting the succession of Whist to Quadrille from an authority whom he did not like to acknowledge, namely, Sir Calculation Puzzle, in the Humours of Whist. "Egad, you remind me, Sir John, of an observation I have made too; which is, that as long as Quadrille and Ombre were the games in vogue, we certainly were under French influence. Whereas since Whist has come in fashion, you see our politics are improved upon us."--The Humours of Whist. A Dramatic Satire, as acted every day at WHITE's, and other Coffee-houses and Assemblies. 8vo, 1743. [192] From the following passage in the 'Beaux Stratagem,' act ii, scene 1, Whisk is mentioned by Mrs. Sullen in a disparaging manner, as if it were fit only for rustics: "_Dorinda._ You share in all the pleasures that the country affords. _Mrs. Sullen._ Country pleasures! racks and torments! Dost think, child, that my limbs are made for leaping of ditches, and clambering over styles? or that my parents, wisely foreseeing my future happiness in country pleasures, had early instructed me in the rural accomplishments of drinking fat ale, playing at whisk, and smoking tobacco with my husband?" [193] "'The clergymen used to play at _Whisk_ and _Swabbers_.'--Swift." [194] "Whist is a game not much differing from this" [English Ruff and Honours].--Compleat Gamester, p. 86. Edit. 1709. "Triomphe, the card-game called Ruffe, or Trump."--Cotgrave's French and English Dictionary. Edit. 1611. [195] Taylor's Motto: Et habeo, et careo, et curo. [196] The writer of an article on Whist, in the Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 48, discussing the etymology of the name, says: "The Irish injunction, Whisht--'be quiet,' may be thought to require consideration. It is the exact form of the word, barring only the pure s; but this is not the Sibboleth, or touchstone, here. At the utmost, the difficulty is but a dialectical variety, _elegantiæ causa_, for the sake of elegance; just as shoup, for soup."--Nares, in his Glossary, under the word Whist, an exclamation enjoining silence, says of the game, "That the name of Whist is derived from this, is known, I presume, to all who play, or do not play." [197] A Whisk, a small kind of besom: a swab or swabber, a kind of mop. [198] "Whist; by an Amateur: its History and Practice," p. 28, 1843.--A beautiful little book, with appropriate illustrations, designed by Kenny Meadows, and engraved on wood by Orrin Smith and W. J. Linton. [199] "Oldsworth upbraided the late Earl of Godolphin with having a race-horse, and the Earl of Sunderland with having a library, very honestly insinuating that the former made an ill use of the one, and the latter no use at all of the other."--The Censor censured; or Cato turned Cataline, a pamphlet, published in 1722.