Paio--Stock--Widow--Bunch--Pips--Court cards--Their
historic derivation--The number of pip and court cards--
The Joker--His origin in America--Cunning Mercury--
Fantastic designs--Conservative court dresses--
Double-headed and index cards--Costume of the Kings--
Their attributes and headgear--Charles of France--Old
Tarots in Paris--French cards--The names on the French
cards--La Hire--The dress of the knaves--Their
attributes--Patch the court fool--Nicknames--The Bowers--
Skat--Le Valet--Le Fante--Il Soto--Der Ober--Der Unter--
The Queens--Elizabeth of York--Her husband's picture--The
history of Elizabeth our Queen of Cards--Her birth,
education, betrothal and costume--The jilting Dauphin--
Louis XI--Marriage--The poem--The credulous queen--The
elegy of Sir Thomas More--Elizabeth's effigy in
Westminster Abbey--Card backs--Messages and invitations.