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Updated: May 15, 2025
But all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats; which, had they not been very good boats, they could never have endured the sea as they did. On the table were marked with chalk a series of lines, and the play was to strike the coin on the edge of the table with the hand so that it rested between these lines. Shakespeare uses the expression "shove-groat shilling," as does Ben Jonson.
"I thought thou wert there all along, being already half-seas over," said Cary. "Ay, right Upsee-Dutch; and that's more than thou ever wilt be, thou 'long-shore stay-at-home. Why wast making sheep's eyes at Mistress Salterne here, while my pretty little chuck of Burrough there was playing at shove-groat with Spanish doubloons?" "Go to the devil, sirrah!" said Cary.
They were all three fairly full; that into which they entered, the first in the row, was occupied by some gentlemen-pensioners and ladies talking and laughing; some playing shove-groat, and some of them still applauding the song that had just ended.
But all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats; which, had they not been very good boats, they could never have endured the sea as they did. On the table were marked with chalk a series of lines, and the play was to strike the coin on the edge of the table with the hand so that it rested between these lines. Shakespeare uses the expression "shove-groat shilling," as does Ben Jonson.
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