Page:New game at cards, or, A pack of cards changed into a compleat and perpetual almanack (1).pdf/5

 the Zodiack through which the un teers its diurnal coure during the pace of one whole year; there are fifty-two cards in the pack, and that directly anwers the exact number of weeks in a year; examine the cards a little further, and you will find as many pots in them as there are days in a year; there being three hundred and ixty-five pots in a pack of cards, which is exactly the number of days in a year, thee I multiply by twenty-four, and then by ixty, which brings me out the exact number of hours and minutes in a year.

N. Very well Jack, I can't ay but you apply your Almanack exceeding well, but prithee Jack, do you make any further ue of them?

J Yes, my Lord, a great deal.

N. Why, prithee Jack, what further ue do you make of them?

J. Why, my Lord, I ometimes convert Cards into a Prayer-Book.

N. A Prayer-Book, you villain, I am ure if you make an Almanack of your cards, you can never make a Prayer-Book of them.

J. My Lord, I’ll make it appear; you know I told you I could neither read nor write, for that reaon, these cards answer my purpoe, as well as the bet Prayer-Book in England.

N. Prithee Jack, let me hear it out, I like the beginning very well.

J. Why then my Lord, when I look upon thee Four uits of the cards, they preent to me thee four principal religions that’s predominant in the world, viz. Christianity, Judaim Maho-