Jean Volay, as I learn from Leber,[163] was one of the most celebrated French card-makers of the sixteenth century; at what time "Edward Warman" lived, whose name also appears on the cover, is not known; but Mr. Barrington says that a person of that name kept a stationer's shop somewhere about Norton Folgate, about fifty years before the date of his paper, that is about 1737. Any vogue that Spanish cards might have had in the more northerly countries of Europe, during the times of Elizabeth and James I, was probably owing rather to the circumstance of so many Spaniards being then resident in the Low Countries than to any superiority of the cards manufactured in Spain. Until a comparatively recent period, large quantities of cards used to be sent from Antwerp to Spain.[164] [Illustration] From the following verses, in "The Knave of Harts his Supplication to the Card Makers," in Samuel Rowlands' satire entitled 'The Knave of Harts,'[165] 1612, it would appear that cards were then commonly manufactured in England, for it cannot be fairly supposed that the Knave's supplication was addressed to foreign card-makers. The foregoing cut, which is a fac-simile of that prefixed to the edition of 1613, shows the Knaves of Hearts and Clubs in the costume complained of. "We are abused in a great degree, For there's no Knaves so wronged as are we By those that chiefly should be our part-takers: And thus it is, my maisters, you card-makers, All other Knaves are at their own free-will, To brave it out, and follow fashion still In any cut, according to the time, But we poore Knaves (I know not for what crime), Are kept in pie-bald suites, which we have worne Hundred of years; this hardly can be borne. The idle-headed Frenche devis'd us first, Who of all fashion-mongers is the worst; For he doth change farre oftner than the moone; Dislikes his morning suite in th' after-noone. The English is his imitating ape, In every toy the tailors-sheares can shape, Comes dropping after as the divell entices, And putteth on the French-man's cast devices; Ye wee (with whom thus long they both have plaid), Must weare the suites in which we first were made. * * * * *