to your rude health,

Characters:

• Tredrille

“I pass, I’ve done so all the night,
again, the cards owe me a spite,”
“This lady knows you, so do I,”
“such tricks are shameful ma’am, oh fie!”
“I take a King, again, bless me again,
you scarcely pass one hand in ten,”
“you dealt the cards,” “nay I can spy
Spadille at bottom ma’am, oh fie!”
“Pray madam stay, I’ll play alone,
diamonds are trumps, the game is won
with Mattadores, Lord such a rout,
but losers must have leave to pout.”

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• “I pass, I’ve done so all the night, again, the...