[28] "Après souper venoient en place les beaulx Evangiles de bois, c'est-à-dire force tabliers, ou le beau flux, ung, deux, trois."--Rabelais, livre i, chap. 22. [29] The following verses relating to this point are quoted by Peignot, in his Analyse de Recherches sur les Cartes à Jouer, from a poem intituled "La Magdeleine au Désert de la Sainte-Baume en Provence, Poëme spirituel et chrétien, par le P. Pierre de St. Louis, religieux Carme." Lyons, 1668. "Voila quant à l'église: allons à la maison Pour voir après cela si ma rime a raison. Les livres que j'y voy de diverse peinture, Sont les LIVRES DES ROYS, non pas de l'Escriture. J'y remarque au dedans différentes couleurs, Rouge aux Carreaux, aux Cœurs, noir aux Piques, aux Fleurs; Avecque ces beaux Roys, je vois encore des Dames, De ces pauvres maris les ridicules femmes. Battez, battez les bien, battez, battez les tous, N'épargnez pas les Roys, les Dames, ni les FOUS." [30] "The _b_ and _v_ in Persian are constantly used for each other; one instance will suffice--the plural of _na-eeb_, a viceroy, is equally pronounced _nu-vaub_ and _nu-baub_, or, according to our pronunciation, _nabob_."--A Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Captain the Hon. George Keppel, vol. ii, p. 89. Second edit. 1827. [31] "Naipe, carton, &c. Tamarid quiere que sea nombre Arabigo, y lo mismo el Brocense; pero comunamente se juzga que se los dio este nombre por la primer cifra que se las puso, que fue una N y una P, con que se significaba el nombre de su inventor, Nicolao Pepin: y de ahi con pequeña corrupcion se dixo Naipe."--Diccionario de la Academia Españolo, edit. 1734. [32] Istoria della Citta di Viterbo, da Feliciano Bussi, p. 213. Roma, 1743. The passage relating to cards appears to have been first pointed out by Leber, in his Etudes Historiques sur les Cartes à jouer, p. 43. "Though we have no information respecting the precise date of Covelluzzo's birth or death," says Mons. Leber, in a note at p. 17 of Mons. Duchesne's Précis Historique, "it is yet certain that this chronicler, whose name is properly Giovanni de Juzzo de Covelluzzo, wrote in the fifteenth century, and that what he relates about cards being brought into Viterbo in 1379, was extracted from the chronicle of Nicholas de Covelluzzo, one of his ancestors, who, as well as himself, was an inhabitant of Viterbo, and who possibly might have resided there at the period when cards were first introduced." [33] Mahmoud, the Gasnevide, first invaded Hindostan in A.D. 999. [34] "Χαρταριον; Gallicum, _quartier_; scutulum quadratum. Extat. apud Codinum de Offic. aulæ Constantinop. χαρτιον, idem quod χαρταριον."--Meursii Glossarium Græco-Barbarum, 4to, Lugd. Batavor., 1605.--_Quartier de bois._ A quarter, or square piece of timber.--Cotgrave's French and English Dictionary.