At certain games the Knave of Clubs is called PAM. A few years ago the name was applied to the celebrated public character whom Byron is supposed to have designated as "a moral chimney-sweep," in one of the cantos of Don Juan.[310] Most of the terms in the game of Ombre are Spanish. Formerly a pack of cards was usually called a "Pair of cards;" and it appears deserving of remark, that the Italians use the word _Pajo_, which properly signifies a pair, in precisely the same sense when applied to a pack of cards,--_Pajo di carte_. In the time of Queen Elizabeth a pack of cards appears to have been sometimes called a bunch. In the time of Charles II the term "Pair of Cards" fell into disuse; and perhaps one of the latest instances of its employment, is to be found in Poor Robin's Almanac for 1684, under the month December, where the writer, in his introductory verses, laments the decline of good housekeeping in the houses of the rich: "The kitchen that a-cold may be, For little fire you in it may see. Perhaps a pair of cards is going, And that's the chiefest matter doing." The French call a pack of cards "_Un Jeu de cartes_,"--a game, or play of cards; and the German name, "_Ein Spiel Karten_" has the same literal meaning as the French. As the object of this work is not to teach people how to play at cards, those who wish for information, with respect to the different games, are referred to Cotton's 'Complete Gamester,' Seymour, Hoyle, and the Académie des Jeux,--taking with them this piece of advice: "He who hopes at Cards to win, Must never think that cheating's sin; To make a trick whene'er he can, No matter _how_, should be his plan. No case of conscience must he make, Except how he may save his stake; The only object of his prayers,-- Not to be caught, and kicked down stairs."[311]