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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 215 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING. (continued 2)

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"Et decus ob patrium, et studiosæ pubis in usus,

Construxere sacros chartis fidibusque penates."

C. Anstey, ad C. W. Bampfylde, Epistola, 1777.

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