There ware only 5 or 6 of the women of the Religion that ware players at carts (as Mr. Dailly reproached sewerall tymes his wife, that she bit be on of them) all thir, when he was goon, come branking[247] ay to hir house, collationing togither.  The first 3 moneth I was their she used all the persuasions she could to draw me to be on of their society, or at least to bear hir halfe in the gaine and the losse (whiles she would loss 2 crounes, tho she made hir husband beleife she wan), but I would do none of them (remembering my fathers expresse to beware of play, especially at carts and wt sick creatures), alleadging always that I knew nothing of the play.  They offered to learn me, for they came seweral tymes a purpose to draw me on, but I sayd I had other thing ado.  I am exceedingly weill satisfied at this present I did not engage.  She hath told me ay, O Mr. Hope have played wt us:  I replied Mr. Hope might do what he pleased.  Return Mr Dailly when he please he could never find his wife wtin:  some tymes he would have come home at 12 howers wheir she expected not:  when she would come home and find him their, oh whow coldly would she welcome him and the least thing would that day put her out of hir patience, for she had ether in the afternoon tristed to come again to them, or tristed them to come to hir.

    [247] Prancing, tripping.

Thus shortly out of many things, Henry the 4’t was a most galliard, pleasant, and merry prince:  his queens Marguerit (as we show else wheir) was thought to play by him.  On a tyme as he was making himselfe merry dancing a ballat wt some of his nobility, each being obliged to make a extemporary sonnet as it cam about to him to dance, the our-word[248] being, un cucou mene un autre, it fel the Marquis of Aubigni (who was of Scots progeny, his goodsire was Robert Stuart Mareschal of France under Francois the first; it was this Aubigni who told Henry when he was wounded by the Jesuists scoller in the mouth, God, sire, hath suffered you to be stoobed in the mouth, etc.) to dance wt the King in his hand and make his couplets, which I fand right quick: 

    [248] Ourword, overword, refrain, like ourcome and ourturn.

’Si toutes les femmes vouloyent les hommes cuco seroyent; les Roys comme les autres, un cuco mene un autre,’

Henry confessed he had win at him in his sonnet.

Follows some enigmes found in a Romance penned by Beroaldus,[249] named le voyage des princes fortunez, wtout the explication, whence Mr Daille set me on work to resolve them:  resolved sewerall betuixt us.

    [249] Beroalde de Verville, Francois, 1558-1612, philosopher,
        mathematician, and author of lighter works. The Voyage was
        published in 1610.  Paris.

  Un pere a douze fils qui lui naissent sans femme,
  Ces douze aussi sans femme engendrent des enfants;
  Quand un meurt l’autre naist et tous vivent sans ame. 
  Noires les filles sont, et les males sont blancs.