Note 168 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.
Reading edition
About the same period the game of cards seems to have furnished titles to political pamphlets in other countries as well as in England. The following is the title of a Dutch pamphlet, without date, but apparently published about the time that the treaty of Westphalia was concluded, 1648: 'Het herstelde Verkeer-bert verbetert in een Lanterluy-spel.' From a passage in this pamphlet it appears that the game of Lanterloo was the same as that called Labate—the French La Bête, called "Beast," in Cotton's Compleat Gamester.
"Vlaming. Was spel is dat, Vader Jems? ick weet niet dat ick dat oyt ghelesen heb, maer al die ghy genoemt hebt weet ick van.
"Vader Jems. O Bredder! het is dat spel dat veeltijts genoemt werdt Labate, ofte om beter te seggen, Lanterluy."