The form of these cards is circular, and in each suit there are four coat cards, namely, a King, a Queen, a Squire, and a Knave.[255] The distinction between the two latter is not indeed very clearly expressed in the costume; though there cannot be a doubt that the lowest character is that which in each suit is represented as running, and thus plainly corresponding with the Italian Fante. The highest of the numeral cards is the Nine, there being no Ten in this pack. The respective number of each is marked at the top in Arabic cyphers, and at the bottom in Roman numerals. At the bottom also, within the outer circle of the border, are the letters T. W., probably intended for the initials of the engraver.[256] Whoever he might be, his name is unknown; and only one other subject of his engraving is noticed by Bartsch. In the annexed specimens are shown the King, Queen, and Ace of Hares; the Squire of Columbines; the Deuce and Squire of Pinks; and the Knave and Nine of Parroquets. On each of the Aces there is an inscription on a scroll, as on the Ace of Hares; on the latter, the language is low German--"Platt Duitsch"--and the words form a rhyming couplet: AV͞E MI DRINT MĒ VIN, DAEROM MOT IC EN LEPUS SIN. The precise meaning of this it is not easy to make out; but taking the contracted word AV͞E to have been intended for _Auwe_, a meadow, the couplet may be thus "done into English:" Me o'er fields men keen pursue, Therefore I'm the Hare you view. But supposing the word AV͞E to have been meant for _Augen_, the eyes, and giving a slight turn to one or two other words, the meaning would be that the hare was called LEPUS--quasi _Lippus_--on account of its blear eyes. Mons. Duchesne says that, on the plate containing the Aces, there is a date written in an old hand, but he omits to mention what it is. In the 'Jeux de Cartes Tarots et de Cartes Numérales,' where all the fifty-two pieces are given, they are said to have been engraved about 1477. These cards, though of the same form, and having the same marks of the suits as those described by Bartsch, and noticed by Singer, are yet the work of a different engraver.