Win at first, lose at last: or, A new game at cards: Wherein the King recovered his crown, and traitors lost their heads. To the tune of; Ye gallants take delight to play. L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? 1680 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B04828 Wing P3390 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[522] 99887953 ocm99887953 183616 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04828) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183616) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[407]) Win at first, lose at last: or, A new game at cards: Wherein the King recovered his crown, and traitors lost their heads. To the tune of; Ye gallants take delight to play. L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for Fra. Coles, Tho; Vere; Io. VVright and Io. Clarke., London, : 1680. Attributed to Laurence Price. Verse: "You merry hearts that love to play ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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YE merry hearts that love to play At Cards , see who hath won the day , You that once did sadly sing , The Knave o' th Clubs hath won the King : How more happy times ye have , The King hath overcome the Knave ; The King hath overcome the Knave . Not long ago a Game was play'd , When three Crowns at the stake was lay'd , England had no cause to boast , Knaves won that which Kings had lost : Coaches gave the way to Carts , And Clubs were better Cards than Hearts ; &c. Old Noll was the Knave o' th Clubs , And Dad of such as Preach in Tubs : Bradshaw , Ireton , and Pride , Were three other Knaves beside : And they play'd with half the Pack , Throwing out all Cards but Black ; &c. But the just Fates threw these four out , Which made the Loyal Party shout , The Pope would fain have had the Stock , And with these Cards have whip'd his Deck , But soon the Devil these Card snatches , To dip in Brimstone and make Matches ; To dip ; &c. But still the sport for to maintain , Lambert , Haslerige , and Vain , And one-ey'd Hewson , took their places , Knaves were better Cards then Aces : But Fleetwood he himself did save , Because he was More Fool than Knave ; &c. Cromwell , though he so much had won , Yet he had an unlucky Son : He sits still and not regards , Whilst cunning Gamesters set the Cards , And thus alas , poor silly Dick , He playd a while ; but lost the Trick ; &c. The Rumpers that had won whole Towns , The spoyls of Martyrs , and of Crowns : Were not contented but grew rough , As though they had not won enough ; They kept the Cards still in their hands , To play for Tithes and Colledge Lands ; To play ; &c. The Presbyters began to fret , That they were like to loose the set , Unto the Rump they did appeal , And said it was their turns to deal , Then dealt the Presbyterians , but , The Army sware that they will cut ; The Army sware that they will cut . THe Forraign Lands began to wonder , To see what Gallants we lived under , That they which Christmas did forswear , Should follow Gameing all the Year : Nay more , which was the strangest thing , To play so long without a King ; To play so long without a King. The bold Phanaticks present were , Like Butlers , with their boxes there : Not doubting but that every Game Some profit would redound to them : Because they were the Gamester's Minions , And every day broacht new Opinions ; &c. But Cheshire Men ( as stories say ) Began to shew them Gamesters play : Brave Booth , and all his Army strives To save the stakes or lose their lives : But Oh sad fate , they were undone , By playing of their Cards too soon : &c. Thus all the while a Club was trump , There 's none could ever beat the Rump : Until a noble General came , And gave the Cheaters a clear slam : His finger did out-wit their noddy , And screw'd up poor Iack Lamberts body , &c. Then Hasllrige began to scowl : And said the General plaid foul : Look to him Partners , for I tell ye , This Monk has got a King in 's belly : Not so , quoth Monk , but I believe Sir Arthur has a Knave in 's sleeve , &c. When General Monk did understand The Rump were peeping into 's hand : He wisely kept his Cards from sight , Which put the Rump into a fright : He saw how many were betray'd . That shew'd their Cards before they play'd , &c. At length , quoth he , some Cards we lack , I will not play with half a Pack : What you cast out , I will bring in , And a new Game we will begin : With that the standers by did say , They never yet saw fairer play ; &c. But presently this Game was past , And for a second Knaves were cast ; All new Cards , not stain'd with spots , As was the Rumpers and the Scots : Here good Gamesters plaid their parts , They turned up the King of Hearts ; &c. After this Game was done , I think : The Standers by had cause to drink : And the Loyal Subjects sing , Farewel Knaves , and welcome King : For till we saw the King return'd , We Wish'd the Cards had all been burn'd ; We wish'd the Cards had all been burn'd . L. P. FINIS . London , Printed for Fra. Coles ; Tho. Vere ; Io. VVright and Io. Clarke , 168● .