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A34637	Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.	1674		.xml	application/xml	43278	1095	66	There are a sort of cunning fellows about this City , who before they go to play will plant half a dozen of these Packs ( nay sometimes half a score ) in the hands of a Drawer , who to avoid being suspected will call to their confederate Drawer for a fresh pack of Cards , who brings them as from a shop new , and some of these Packs shall be so finely markt , whereby the Gamester shall plainly and certainly know every Card therein contain'd by the outside , although the best of other eyes shall not discern where any mark was made at all ; and this done with that variety that every ●ard of every suit shall have a different distinguishable mark . The five fingers ( alias , five of trumps ) is the best Card in the pack ; the Ace of Hearts is next to that and the next is the Ace of Trumps , then the Knave , and the rest of Cards are best according to their value in pips , or as they are trumps .	cache/A34637.xml	txt/A34637.txt
