Hood died in 1845.

A Note upon the Game of Ombre is added, which is founded upon the
description of the game in a little book--"The Court Gamester"--
which instructed card-players in the reigns of the first Georges.
In the "Rape of the Lock" there is a game of ombre played through to
the last trick. That note will enable any reader to follow
Belinda's play. It will also enable any one who may care to do so
to restore to a place among our home amusements a game which carried
all before it in Queen Anne's day, and which is really, when cleared
of its gambling details, as good a domestic game for three players
as cribbage or piquet is for two. My "Court Gamester," which was in
its fifth edition in 1728, after devoting its best energies to
ombre, contented its readers in fewer pages with the addition only
of piquet and chess.

Obsolete words and words of Scottish dialect, with a few more as to
the meaning of which some readers might be uncertain, will be found
explained in the Glossary that ends this volume.



CHAUCER'S MANCIPLE'S TALE OF PHOEBUS AND THE CROW
MODERNISED BY LEIGH HUNT.


NOTE.

The reader is to understand, that all the persons previously
described in the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" are now riding