The games of Gargantua.
Then blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance
a piece of scurvy grace, he washed his hands in fresh
wine, picked his teeth with the foot of a hog, and
talked jovially with his attendants. Then the
carpet being spread, they brought plenty of cards,
many dice, with great store and abundance of chequers
and chessboards.
There he played.
At flush. At love.
At primero. At the chess.
At the beast. At Reynard
the fox.
At the rifle. At the squares.
At trump. At the cows.
At the prick and spare not. At the lottery.
At the hundred. At the chance
or mumchance.
At the peeny. At three
dice or maniest bleaks.
At the unfortunate woman. At the tables.
At the fib. At nivinivinack.
At the pass ten. At the lurch.
At one-and-thirty. At doublets
or queen’s game.
At post and pair, or even and At the faily.
sequence.
At the French trictrac.
At three hundred. At the long
tables or ferkeering.
At the unlucky man. At feldown.
At the last couple in hell. At tod’s
body.
At the hock. At needs
must.
At the surly. At the dames
or draughts.
At the lansquenet. At bob and
mow.
At the cuckoo. At primus
secundus.
At puff, or let him speak that At mark-knife.
hath it.
At the keys.
At take nothing and throw out. At span-counter.
At the marriage. At even
or odd.
At the frolic or jackdaw. At cross
or pile.
At the opinion. At ball
and huckle-bones.
At who doth the one, doth the At ivory balls.
other.
At the billiards.
At the sequences. At bob and
hit.
At the ivory bundles. At the owl.
At the tarots. At the charming
of the hare.
At losing load him. At pull
yet a little.
At he’s gulled and esto. At
trudgepig.
At the torture. At the magatapies.
At the handruff. At the horn.
At the click. At the flowered
or Shrovetide ox.
At honours. At the madge-owlet.
At pinch without laughing. At tilt
at weeky.
At prickle me tickle me. At ninepins.
At the unshoeing of the ass. At the cock
quintin.
