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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 119 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.

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Geiler's second bell—his peal consists of seven—rings to this tune. "Secunda nola est: ludcre alea dissimilibus. Tangit hæc nola feminas nobiles et sacerdotes: feminas, inquam, quæ immiscent se turbis virorum et cum eis ludunt, contra c. ii de judiciis, lib. vi; sacerdotes et prelatos ludentes cum laicis,—laici sunt clericis oppido infesti, unde scandalizantur; nobiles qui ludunt cum nebulonibus et lenonibus, ut in speculo nostro vulgari habes."—Speculum Fatuorum, auctore Joanne Geiler de Keisersberg, concionatore Argentorense, sect. LXXVII. Lusorum turba (Spiel Narre). Edit. Strasburg, 1511. It may here be observed that Geiler's bells are intended by himself for the caps of "Spiel Narre"—gambling fools.

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