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Galley-foist was the name given to long many-oared barges, particularly the Lord Mayor's barge of state. Foist is also a term for a sharper; and gallifoist was intended to be pronounced here gullifoist. An account of the way to play Gleek is given in the Compleat Gamester, 1674. Ambergrease was not uncommonly used for culinary purposes. Father-in-law is often used by old writers for step-father.
ANTHONY: Well, cousin, in some part they do but play at gleek they receive reverence, and to their cost they pay honour again therefor. For except, as I said, a king alone, the greatest in authority under him receiveth not so much reverence from any man as according to reason he himself doth honour to the king.
In the house, many of the gentlemen betook themselves to cards or dice, and parties were formed at Ombre, at Basset, at Gleek, at Primero, and other games then in fashion; while the dice were used at various games, both with and without the tables, as Hazard, In-and-in, Passage, and so forth.
"For you know," he said, "it was you persuaded me to get these fine things, and go to that godless ordinary, and ruffle it with the best, and bring you home all the news; and you said, I, that was the cock of the ward, would soon be the cock of the ordinary, and would win ten times as much at gleek and primero, as I used to do at put and beggar- my-neighbour and turn up doublets with the dice, as busily as I was wont to trowl down the ninepins in the skittle-ground and then you said I should bring you such news out of the ordinary as should make us all, when used as you knew how to use it and now you see what is to come of it all!"
"O, my lord," replied the Templar, "it was for a hap that chanced after you left the ordinary, one evening about three weeks since at least I think you were not by, as your lordship always left us before deep play began I mean no offence, but such was your lordship's custom when there were words between Lord Dalgarno and me concerning a certain game at gleek, and a certain mournival of aces held by his lordship, which went for eight tib, which went for fifteen twenty- three in all.
The book is Smollett's "Barry Lyndon," yet as his hero does not tell his own story, but is perpetually held up as a "dreadful example," there is none of Thackeray's irony, none of his subtlety. "Here is a really bad man, a foreigner too," Smollett seems to say, "do not be misled, oh maidens, by the wiles of such a Count! Impetuous youth, play not with him at billiards, basset, or gleek.
His great genius for financial combinations was at this time employed by him in gleek, trick-track, quadrille, whist, loo, ombre, and other pastimes of mingled luck and skill. In consequence of a quarrel about a lady, Mr.
Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy? marry quep upon his lordship! Every man who comes there with his purse in his hand, is as free to make new laws as he, I hope, since touch pot touch penny makes every man equal."
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