Shuffling, Cutting, and Dealing, IN A Game at Pickquet: BEING Acted from the Year, 1653. to 1658. BY O. P. And others; With great Applause.  Tempora mutantur et nos— 
Printed in the Year, 1659.   

Shuffling, Cutting, and Dealing, In a GAME at Pickquet.  Oliver P. 
I Am like to have a good beginning on't: I have thrown out all my best Cards, and got none but a Company of Wretched Ones; so I may very well be capetted.  ●ambert. 
— Now you have a New Pack (my Lord) I am content to play; but you knew every Card of the Old ones, and could make your Game as you listed.  Laurence. 
I took a few, yet they make me a good Game; for I left all the li●●le Ones behind me.  Fleetwood. 
If your Highness had those my Lord Laurence left, you would have a better Game than you have, I could wish you would look upon them: But yet I know you can hardly tell what to play well. I am for the Little Ones, if there be enough of them; for two Quint Minors will win the Game, before you come to reckon you are 14 by Knaves.  ●●●s. 
It is fit you should play at some common Game, where all the small Cards are in, and where the Ace goeth but for one. I was too long at the sport, and left it, because I could make nothing of it. But here whosoever gets one Card, is like to make a good hand: I have got a good Tearse already.  ●●sgrave. 
I was somewhat scrupulous, whether Play was lawful, or nor; and so sat out the last Game, which had like to have undone me: for the future, I shall play what Game soever your Highness pleaseth, especially now I see you play so well when you lose.  ●●sle. 
If I go into France, I must practise another Game; but do what I can, I shall be overreached by hoc Mazarine.  Disborow. 
I am nothing but a Ruff, yet I shall do well: I have got a Card of a right Suit, and hope to have a better Game, if the Cards were in any other hands than your Lordships.  Skippon. 
I sit here and hold the Cards, but know no more how to play then a Post.  Rouse. 
I am more diligent at this Game, than ever I was at any; but I got more the last Game, when I played Cent: for I had a hundred, and all made: All that I desire, is to save myself, and help my Kindred to something, by betting on my side, while my Luck lasts.  Jones. 
I must needs lose; for I have thrown out the Card that made me a good Game.  Ouseley. 
A pox on't, I left Pickadilly, and the Three Kings, to play here; and I shall get nothing all the days of my life.  Ashley-Cooper. 
I was Pickquet at White-Hall, and thought to save myself amongst the Cavalier-Posts; but I doubt I shall be deceived.  Pickering. 
I had rather play at another Game, where more may play: But I thank the Lord, I can frame myself to any Sport, so my Lord P. be one at it.  Strickland. 
You play not here as they do in Holland, where I learned this Game: for you make lifting here; and there they deal by turns.  Major. 
All that I am, I had in my Rise; I was the pitifullest Game in the World before.  S●denham. 
I am pretty well, though I changed my Suit; I went in all one, and had another as good in the Stock.  M●ntague. 
You make me play at a Game I never knew in my life before; I must needs lose.  ●●ke. 
I shall be a kind of a stander-by this time, and so shall have time enough to teach you the Game against the next, when you may play by yourself.  Thurlee. 
My Lord, It will not be so well for me to play: I'll stand behind your Chair, and make and shuffle with what you are to play the next Game.  St. John. 
My Lord, I shall not play neither; but I will go your halves, so you keep my counsel.  Peerpoint. 
You play so rashly, I will not bet a farthing on your head.  Salloway. 
— I am but a stander-by; yet I observe the small Cards that are left, and not played with, are all very clean; but the rest of the Pack are filthy foul already.  Bradshaw. 
— I dispatched out one King, and went for another; but have miss him: yet he hath not a Card of his Suit with him; so I shall snap him, when he comes into my hands.  Has●erigg. 
— May we play not Levet-coyl? I have not patience to stay till another Match be made; and I had as leive be hanged as sit out.  Nevel. 
— I will not play for a farthing; besides that, I love not the Game, I am so duned with the Spleen, I should think on something else all the while I were a playing; and take in all the small Cards: for I am all day dreaming of another Game.  Waller. 
My Lord, you have hanged my King, and I have no other way then to play into your hands.  Whitlock: 
I shall be comment to play at any Game, but shall be unwilling to play for a dead horse: yet I care not if I keep Stakes.  Knightly. 
My Lord, give me leave to speak against your Game, that so I may be thought not to bet; and then I shall be able to give such advice, as I may help you to play.  Roberts. 
I have the luck on't; I win as well at this Game, as at the last when I played at Loadam: I had all the small Cards, and now I have all the great ones.  Gerra●d. 
I do not like the Game so well, as to leave the match I have made for myself; yet I do not care if I venture a little on your hand, and try if I can get a Stock to set up my youngest Son for a Gamester.  Bernard. 
May I not talk as much as I will in your play, so long as I am resolved never to bet or play with you at this Game for a groat.  Vane. 
One had better sometimes play with a good Gamester than a bungler; for one knows not where to have him: If Cromwell had discarded as he ought to have done, I had won my stake at it: as it is, I shall save myself; which I fear he will hardly do, though he mingles the the Cards well when he deals himself, and hath excellent luck in cutting when another deals.  Rich. 
I play a thousand times better now I have a bad Game, then when I had a good one.  Harrison. 
I played the fool, and went in for a Fifth King, when there was but four in the Stock.  Lawson. 
My Lord, the Game was not dealt you, you took it, I throw up my Cards.  Streater. 
My Lord, If you would Curse and Swear sound, the Game would become you better than it doth, in regaed you pretend so much to Religion; I shall disturb you in the Game if I stand by: I see you play in the dark, therefore I must take my leave of your Lordship, and bid you good night.  noel. 
I make my fortune by lending the Gamesters money.  Young Trever. 
Shall not I play? my Lord Protector hath given me a Stock, and I'll pack the Cards with all the Cavalier-Gamesters in the Town.  Sir John Trever. 
Well said Jack, Thou art none of my son if thou be'st not in all Games, and canst carry a Trump in thy Pocket.  Harvey. 
They caught me playing false, and would let me play no longer, though I was on my Lord Protector's side.  Tichborn. 
I had reason to desire to play at Council Pickquet, since I am like 〈◊〉 lose so much by another man's ill play.  Newdigate. 
I have lost by play, but I got by leaving off.  Chute. 
There is such Cheating, that I'll play no longer.  Puresoy. 
I'll play at small Game, rather than sit out; for I was never set at work.  Pride, 
Baxter and I am at the Old Foolish Christmas Game with Honours.  Monk. 
My Lord, when you came to play, your Stock was none of the greatest; but since I see your good fortune, I am resolved still to play as you do: especially, since you have made me Master of one of your great Playhouses: but above all th' ngs, if you can keep the Bone in your hand, the Dogs will follow you; if you can keep the Treasure, the Gamesters will all Crowd to you.  Dissenting Army-Members. 
My Lord, when you began the Game, you promised us fair play above-board; but since we see you begin to Juggle, we will play no longer.  Exchequer. 
I must win at last, Yet at present I have ill-luck; for I have three Knaves, and had cast out the fourth.  Upper-Bench. 
Sure you are no better than a Cheat; for I threw out one of them, and you have taken him up into your hands.  Common-Pleas. 
You served me the very same trick the last Term, and took in one of them whom I discarded; but ye had best leave your cheating and wrangling all of Ye, left Ye be found what Ye are, and be forbid to keep a Christmas here any more, and then we be forced to set up a misrule in the Country, where there are but small Games, and the Box will be poorly paid.  Chancery and Duchy. 
I am blanek; if it had not been for the Queen, I had cast out a Knave, which now proves the be●● of my Game.  trusties. 
I have taken more than I should; I must reckon nothing.  Commiss. for Excise and Cust. 
Gentlemen, pay the Box.  Presbyterian. 
I lost the last Game for want of a King; and now have got one that doth me no good in the world: I had a good hand, but I played the Fool and threw it out, so that all my help depends on one Card.  Independent. 
I have none but small Cards, and they of several Suits, so that I shall make little of it this bout.  National Minister. 
I went in for those Cards the Bishops and Deans parted with the last Game; but, though I missed them, Yet if my Tent●s be good, I shall make shift till another Dealing.  Divines. 
I was Pickquet the last, but am now repick●t.  Papist. 
If you all complain, I hope I shall win at last.   

Epilogue.  
IT is to be noted, that the Gentlemen that have been eminent in this last Dealing of the Cards, played very fair in the former Game here described, With a  
Plaudite.— sic transit Gloria Mundi.