The Royal Game of the Ombre / Written at the Request of divers Honourable Persons—1665

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The Royal Game of the Ombre.
Written At the Request of divers Honourable Persons.
London
Printed for Thomas Palmer, at the Crown in Westminster-Hall, 1665.
The Royal Game of the Ombre.
L'Ombre is a Spanish Game at Cards, as much as to say, The Man: so he who undertakes to play the Game, sayes Jo so l'Ombre, or, I am the Man. And 'tis a common saying with the Spaniards, (alluding to the name) that the Spanish l'Ombre as far surpasses the French le Beste, as a Man do's a Beast, There are divers sorts of it, of which, this (which we shall only treat of, and which chiefly is in vogue) is called the Renegado, for reasons better supprest then known.
How many can play at it, and with what Cards they are to play.
There can only three play at it, and they are dealt nine Cards a piece: so by discarding the Eights, Nines, and Tens out of the Pack, there remains thirteen Cards in the Stock.
Of the Trump
There is no turning up Trump, nor no Trump but what the Player pleases, the first hand having alwayes the choice to play or pass, after him the second, &c.
Of the Stakes