Note 408 — SCENE III.
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five-finger at maw] “For my game [at maw] stood, me thought, upon my last two tricks, when I made sure of the set, and yet lost it, hauing the varlet and the fiue finger to make two tricks.” Chapman’s May Day, 1611, p. 76.—For some account of maw, see Singer’s Researches into the Hist. of Playing Cards, p. 258, sqq.