Note 146 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.
Reading edition
Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Edited by Peter Cunningham, p. 176. Published by the Shakspere Society.
A comedy intended to display the evil consequences of dicing and card-playing was performed before the Emperor Maximilian II at Vienna, on New Year's Day, 1570.—See the Collectanea of Johannes a Munster, appended to the Alea of Pascasius Justus, edit. 1617.