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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 199 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING. (continued 2)

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"Oldsworth upbraided the late Earl of Godolphin with having a race-horse, and the Earl of Sunderland with having a library, very honestly insinuating that the former made an ill use of the one, and the latter no use at all of the other."—The Censor censured; or Cato turned Cataline, a pamphlet, published in 1722.

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