A new game at cards, or, The three nimble shuffling cheaters to a pleasant new tune, Or, what you please. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09581 of text R180935 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09581 Wing N642 ESTC R180935 ocm 62369504

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A new game at cards. Or, The three nimble shuffling cheaters. To a pleasant new tune, or, what you please. n/a 1655 3 620 11 0 0 0 0 0 177.42 F The rate of 177.42 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A New game at Cards . OR , The three Nimble Shuffling Cheaters . To a pleasant new tune , Or , what you please .

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YOu Gallants all that love to play , At Cards to pass the time away , I will tell you a new game , If you will please to learn the same , Such a game you have not seen , Play with all the Knaves without King or Queen There were three cheaters met together , To sée if they could cheat each other , The first was an Irish-man so bot , The second was a cheating Scot , The third an English-man so round , Yet he would play for an English Crown , The game it was so strange yet true The standers by as ne'r yet knew , How the game was to be plaid , Or how the Cards were cut and laid , For there was a secret in the thing , That the Knave of Clubs should beat the King ▪ The Irish-man began the game , But knew not how to play the same , But quarrelled with the English-man , For holding the Cards so under-hand For he d●d not know the thing , Th●t the Knave of Clubs should be above the King The Scotch-man he began to deal , He shuffled and cut and away d●d steal , The King then from the En●lish-man , Then many thought the game was done , For he did not know the thing , That the Knave should be above the King . The English-man was at a stand , To sée the King in the Scotch-mans hand , Then he began to cast about , What he must do to fetch him out , He thought that mony must do the thing , And make the Knave to be above the King .
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THe Scotch-man like a cheating Knave , when he knew what mony he should have Like a clown he cast him back , Vnder the Knave into the pack , And by this meanes he thought to win , When he pla●d the game no King no King . The English-man was greatly glad , When the King again in hand he had , He cockt his Braver and did jump , Because the Knaves of Clubs was trump , Now quoth he I 'm sure to win . I know th● knave o● clubs will beat the King Fo●r Country-men then plaid about , For j y the King was quite left out , Quoth one observe with due regards . The Knave is master of the Cards , And we rejo●ce now at this thing , And glad they were they had left out the King We care not for the King a pin , If by the Knave we thrive and win , For t is well known and justify'd . We ever lov'd the stron●est side . They all rejoyc'd now at this thing , And glad they were they had left out the King A Gun-man gave a mighty crack , To sée the King cut of the pack , And said your knave of Clubs i' th end , When all is done must stand our friend , And I rejoyce now at this thing That you kind friends have quite left out the King The knave of clubs as you him call , Shall one day win the love of all , Those that abuse him and his Banners , Wée'l beat them into better manners But I rejoyce now at this thing . That you kind friends have quite left out the King