accusation against thee, which is, that you drive your father’s sheepe over a narrow bridge where some of them are oftentimes drowned. That’s a lye, too, quoth the boy, for those that go over the bridge are well enough, it is only those that fall beside which are drowned: Whereto the Justice said to the boy’s father, Old man, why hast thou brought in two false accusations against thy soune, for he never lost sheepe at one and thirty, nor were there any drowned that went over the bridge.” In _Taylor’s Motto_ the same author names many other games at cards which were then in vogue:— “The Prodigall’s estate, like to a flux, The Mercer, Draper, and the Silk-man sucks; The Taylor, Millainer, Dogs, Drabs and Dice, They trip, or Passage, or the Most at thrice; At Irish, Tick tacke, Doublets, Draughts, or Chesse He flings his money free with carelessnesse: At Novum, Mumchance, mischance (chuse ye which), At One and Thirty, or at Poore and Rich, Ruffe, Flam, Trump, Noddy, Whisk, Hole, Sant, New Cut, Unto the keeping of foure Knaves, he’l put His whole estate at Loadum, or at Gleeke, At Tickle me quickly, he’s a merry Greeke, At Primefisto, Post and Payre, Primero, Maw, Whip-her-ginny, he’s a lib’rall Hero: At My sow pigg’d; and (Reader, never doubt ye, He’s skill’d in all games except), Looke about ye. Bowles, Shove groate, Tennis, no game comes amiss, His purse a purse for anybody is.” Naturally, under the Puritans, card playing was anathema, and we hear nothing about it, if we except the political satire by Henry Nevile, which was published in 1659, the year after Cromwell’s death. It is entitled “Shuffling, Cutting, and Dealing in a Game at Picquet: Being acted from the Year 1653 to 1658 by O. P. [Oliver, Protector] and others, with great applause. _Tempora mutantur et nos._” It is well worth reading, but it is too long for reproduction here.