Note 200 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING. (continued 2)

"Mr. Pope's beautiful description of the manner of playing this game."—Seymour's Court Gamester, 1722.—"It is Belinda's game in the Rape of the Lock, where every incident in the whole deal is so described, that when Ombre is forgotten (and it is almost so already) it may be revived with posterity from that admirable poem."—Barrington on the Antiquity of Card-playing. Pope's Grotto, and Hampton Court, excite in the mind of Miss Mitford "vivid images of the fair Belinda and of the inimitable game at Ombre."—Our Village, fourth series.