Puss my aple against thy mouse jle lay ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74087 of text R210663 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[105]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A74087 Thomason 669.f.10[105] ESTC R210663 99869439 99869439 162637 2240952359

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74087) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162637) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[105]) Puss my aple against thy mouse jle lay ... 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. s.n., [S.l. : 1646] "An engraving representing a monkey and a cat playing at cards; with descriptive verses denouncing card-playing." -Thomason catalogue. Verse: "Puss my aple gainst thy mouse ile lay" ... Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb. 23. 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Card games -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800. A74087 R210663 (Thomason 669.f.10[105]). civilwar no Puss mu aple against thy mouse jle lay ... anon. 1646 1 76 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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