Using 52 Cards and the Foregoing Interpretations.
Take a pack of fifty-two cards and shuffle them three times well over,
and making the significator whichever queen you please (if a lady
performs the operation for herself; or king, if a gentleman), then
proceed to lay them on the table, nine in a row, and wherever the
operator finds himself placed, count nine cards every way, not
forgetting the said significator, then it will be seen what card the
significator comes in company with, and read from that.
When several diamonds come together, the interpretation is that some
money will soon be received; several hearts, love; several clubs,
drink and noisy troublesome company; several spades, trouble and
vexation.
If two red tens come next to the significator marriage or prosperity,
the ace of hearts is the house, the ace of clubs a letter, the ace of
spades death, spite, or quarreling (for this is supposed to be the
worst card in the pack), the ten of diamonds a journey, the three of
hearts a salute, the three of spades tears, the ten of spades
sickness, the nine of spades sad disappointment or trouble, to the
nine of clubs is ascribed a jovial entertainment or reveling, the nine
of hearts feasting, the ten of clubs traveling by water, the ten of
hearts some place of amusement, the five of hearts a present, the five
of clubs a bundle, the six of spades a child, the seven of spades a
removal, the three of clubs fighting, the eight of clubs confusion,
the eight of spades a roadway, the four of clubs a strange bed, the
nine of diamonds business, the five of spades a surprise, the two red
eights new clothes, the three of diamonds speaking with a friend, the
four of spades a sick bed, the seven of clubs a prison, the two of
spades a false friend, the four of hearts the marriage bed.
If a married lady doth lay the cards, she must then make her husband
the king of the same suit she is queen of; but if a single lady, she
must make her lover what king she may think proper. The jacks of the
same suits are supposed to be men's thoughts, so that they may know
what they are thinking of, counting nine cards from where they are
placed, and it is said if any lady should wish to know whether she
shall obtain her desires in any particular subject, matter, or thing
whatsoever, let her shuffle the cards well, most seriously and
earnestly wishing all the time for one thing; she must then cut them
once, particularly observing at the same time what card that is which
she cuts, then shuffle them and deal them out in three parcels, and if
that said particular card which she has cut doth come next herself, or
next the ace of hearts, it is taken that she will have her wish, but
if the nine of spades is next to her she judges the contrary, as that
is supposed to be a disappointment; however, she may try it three
times, taking the major number of testimonies as a ground whereon to
place her judgment. This method of using the cards is both innocent
and will afford amusement.