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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 140 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.

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Life of Lord Bacon, p. 5. Lord Bacon relates the circumstances, and a certain curious man's explanation of them, in his Sylva, Century xth, p. 245. Edit. 1631.

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