[214] At the foot of the title-page of the second volume, for the years 1761-2-3, there is a notice, that "sketches or hints, sent post-paid [to the publisher], will have due honour shewn them."
"Et decus ob patrium, et studiosæ pubis in usus,
Construxere sacros chartis fidibusque penates."
C. Anstey, ad C. W. Bampfylde, Epistola, 1777.
[216] Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, by R. Anderson. An explanation of a few terms in the above verses will render them more intelligible to the reader who has the misfortune to be unacquainted with the Cumberland dialect. Clipt and heeled, prepared for the sport, like cocks for fighting. Lish, sprightly, active. Cuttered, cooed, like billing doves. Stour, dust. Lanter, three-card loo. Caird-lakers, card-players. Lanter, or lant, so common in Cumberland and Northumberland, appears to have been unknown to a deservedly high authority on all sports and games: "The editor does not know the game of Lant."—Bell's Life in London, 4th March, 1838.
[217] Some curious particulars—somewhat exaggerated—respecting certain great card-players of this period will be found in 'The Adventures of a Guinea.'
[218] An Address to Persons of Fashion relating to Balls: with a few occasional Hints concerning Play-houses, Card-tables, &c. By the Author of Pietas Oxoniensis. Sixth edition, 1771.
[219] "The causes of infidelity are various. Before the improved sagacity of Dr. Rennell had discovered that it owed its origin to Popery, his wisdom had detected its source, artfully lurking in the 'unmeaning combinations' of a pack of cards."—Reflections on the Spirit of Religious Controversy, by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, of Hexham, England, p. 192. 12mo, New York, 1808.