"Denmarke, not sitting farr, and seeing what hand Great Brittayne had, and how Rome's loss did stand, Hopes to win something too: Maw is the game At which he playes, and challengeth at the same A Muncke, who stakes a chalice. Denmarke sets gold, And shuffles; the Muncke cuts: Denmarke being bold, Deales freely round; and the first card he showes Is the five finger, which, being turn'd up, goes Cold to the Muncke's heart; the next Denmarke sees Is the ace of hearts: the Muncke cries out, I lees! Denmarke replyes, Sir Muncke, shew what you have; The Muncke could shew him nothing but the Knave." From the allusions to the five fingers and the ace of hearts, in the preceding extracts, it would appear that the game of Maw was the same as that which was subsequently called Five-Cards, for, in both games, the five of trumps--called the five fingers--was the best card, and next to that was the ace of hearts.[155] From the frequent mention of cards by writers of the time of James I, it would appear that the game was as common a diversion with his Majesty's peaceable subjects, as it was with the fighting men who followed the banner of Wallenstein or Tilly in the Thirty-Years' War. Inordinate gaming in one country, according to certain authorities, was the result of long-continued peace and too much ease; according to others, it was the natural consequence of war; in England, the devil, finding men idle, gave them employment at cards and dice; and in Germany, where they were busy in the work of destruction, he encouraged them to play as a relaxation from their regular labours. Prodigals, in each country, lighted their candle at both ends: English gallants used to divert themselves with cards at the playhouse before the performance began;[156] and desperate hazarders in the imperial camp staked, on a cast at dice, their plunder, ere it had well come into their possession.