Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

by William Andrew Chatto

(All are become a stiff-necke generation);

Rose hat-bands with the shagged-ragged ruffe,

Great cabbage-shoostrings (pray you bigge enough),

French dublet, and the Spanish hose to breech it,

Short cloakes, old mandilions [166] (we beseech it);

Exchange our swords, and take away our bils,

Let us have rapiers, (Knaves love fight that kils);

Put us in bootes, and make us leather legs:

This Harts, most humbly, and his fellows begs."

In Rowlands' 'More Knaves Yet? The Knaves of Spades and Diamonds,' published after his 'Knave of Harts,' the Knaves of Spades and Diamonds are represented in a modernised costume, bestowed on them by the printer, and the favour is thus acknowledged.