The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

A game without civility or law,

An odious play, and yet in court oft seen,

A saucy knave to trump both king and queen.

Then follow'd lodam. [976]——

Now noddy follow'd next.—

The last game now in use is banckerout, [977]

Which will be plaid at still I stand in doubt,

Until lavalta turne the wheele of time

And makes it come aboute again to prime.

Gleek is mentioned with primero in Green's Tu quoque, where one of the characters proposes to play at twelve-penny gleek, but the other insists upon making it for a crown at least.