that it fhould be likewife counted fo, when there is one faced Card.. It is not permitted to deal the Cards after any other Manner than by 4 and 3 at a Time, tho' fome Players erroneously pretend that every Player is at Liberty to deal as he pleases; for fince this Game follows, as near as poffible, the LAWS of OMBRE, at which Game the Cards are not to be dealt any otherwife than 3 at a Time, it is not just to deviate from that Law, which has nothing in it but what is very reasonable, and which is di-, rectly contrary to the Abuses which might he introduced, had every one the Liberty of Dealing according to his Fancy, by fome sharping Players, thro' the Knowledge they might have of the Cards by marking them. II. The Method of Calling.] As the Opi nion of fome Players, who are for having Him, who has the four Kings in his Hand, pass, except he will play Sans-prendre, is repugnant and contrary to the Liberty of Quadrille; and it is but reasonable that it fhould be free for him to play, either calling a Queen, or one of his own Kings; it being generally received, that he who is unwilling to run the Hazard of Sans-prendre, may call one of his own Kings, or any Queen, except That of Trumps. Obferve that, to call a Queen, you must have have the four Kings; fo that if you want the King of Trumps, notwithstanding you have the other three, you are obliged either to call one of those Kings, or to pass. III. The Manner of playing the Cards.} As Penalties upon the Faults committed in all Games, are impofed with no other View than to prevent the Abuses, which might be introduced by sharping, it has been thought neceffary to use Severity in Regard to the following Particulars; because it would be no difficult Matter to abuse them, if they were otherwife judged, or decided. He who draws from his Game a Card, and prefents it openly as if he was going to play it, is obliged fo to do, if his retaining it can do the Game any Prejudice, or give any Knowledge or Intimation to the Friend, efpecially if it is a Matadore. This Cafe equally regards the Defendants as well as the Ombre and the Friend. He who plays Sans-prendre, or has called his own King, is not fubject to this Law, by Reason that by difcovering his Card he can reap no Advantage. He, who, not being eldeft Hand, and has the King, which the Ombre called, fhall trump about with Spadille, Monille, or Bafto, or fhall even lead out the King, which was called, to give Intelligence that he is the Friend, having other Kings in his Hand that he fears the Ombre fhould trump, cannot pretend to lay the leaft Claim to the Vole; nay, and in Cafe any indirect Meaning appears in his hav ing fo done, he ought to be Beasted. IV. Of Miftakes and Accidents.] The Liberty allowed in Quadrille, of looking over the Tricks each Player has before him, to see what has been played, may cause a Fault in two of the Players at once, the one in committing, and the other in occasioning it; which has occafioned that Point to have been decided after the following Manner : He, who, instead of turning up the Tricks of any one of the Players, fhall turn up his Game, which may be laid down before him, and fhall look upon it, or cause it to be seen by the other Players, fhall be Beafted, together with him, whofe Game he has difcovered, each paying half the Beafte; the one paying for his Mistake and little Attention,. and the other for his Negligence in leaving his Cards upon the Board, when he ought to have kept them in his Hand till the Deal was played out. The Establishment of this Law is by fo much the more equitable, because it prevents feveral Abuses. First, the Snares and Baits, which might be laid for Thofe, who want to count the Cards, by placing the Game near the Tricks on Purpose to entrap them. Secondly, the knavish Designs of fuch, who, making as if they were going to see what had been played, fhould turn up the Cards of the other Players, which by Chance or Neglect, they might have laid down before them. V. Of Renounces.] He, who renounces, is not to be Beafted, even if the Trick is taken off the Board, in Cafe he recollects and perceives it before the Trick is turned down by the Person who won it: but if it is turned down, he must be Beafted. He is likewife Beafted, if the Trick be covered with another Card by the Perfon who won it; except he immediately recollects himself before the next Card is played; in which Cafe he may recover his Card, and must not be Beafted. He does not renounce, who, having forgot the Trump, has been told by any Body that the Trump is in fuch a Suit, and who, having none of the Card which is led, fhall trump it with one of that Suit he has been told was Trumps; but he cannot take up his Card again, and the Trick muft belong to him, who won it; it being unjust to punish Honefty after the fame Manner as one would Knavery, or what might look like fuch. He who, without afking what is Trumps, fhall trump with a Card, which is not fo, and fhall fhall have turned down the Trick, must be Beafted, if it appears, or may be fufpected, that he did it with a fraudulent Defign. He who renounces feveral Times in one Deal, if it is not perceived till after the Tricks are turned down upon the Board, is to be Beafted but once; but if after he has been made fenfible of the first, he is ftill fhewed a fecond, and then a third, he must be Beafted for every Renounce he made, and he must take up all his Cards and play them over again, as they ought to be played; and the other Players must observe to play their Cards as they played them before. VI. Of the Faults of difcovering one's Game.] The Fault of discovering one's Game is not the lefs confiderable for its being common, fince the Toleration thereof might introduce many Abuses. It is not therefore permitted either to thofe, who undertake to play, or to those who defend the Stake, to difcover their Cards before the Game is won, by Reason that the Friend of him, who has fhewed his Cards, may make his Advantage of it. So that he, who does it, muft be Beafted. This Cafe does not regard him, who plays Sans prendre, or who has called his own King, because his Game can be favour'd by. none. Thofe, |