horne-booke

Updated: August 16, 2026

So Decker: "Talke of none but lords and such ladies with whom you have plaid at Primero." Gul's Horne-booke, 1609. 37. Among the Marquis of Worcester's celebrated "Century of Inventions," 12mo, 1663, is one "so contrived without suspicion, that playing at Primero at cards, one may, without clogging his memory, keep reckoning of all sixes, sevens, and aces, which he hath discarded."

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century