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THE SQUARE OF SEVENS 
 
 ^ AN AUTHORITATIVE SYSTEM 
 OF CARTOMANCY ^ WITH A 
 PREFATORY NOTICE BY 
 
 E. IREN^US STEVENSON ^ ^ 
 
 NEW YORK . HARPER & BROTHERS 
 PRINTERS S- PUBLISHERS MDCCCXCVII 
 
Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers 
 All rights reserved 
 
€d!toiidl Preface 
 
 “Tis as easy as \y\ngV—HamleL 
 
 is safe to presume 
 that ^en the most 
 inquisitive hook- 
 hunters of the pres- 
 ent day, and few of the fel- 
 lowship during two or three 
 generations past, have encoun- 
 tered the scarce and curious 
 little volume here presented, as 
 in a friendly literary resurrec- 
 tion — Robert Antrdbus's '' The 
 Square of Sevens, and the Par- 
 allelogram” Its mathematical 
 title hardly hints at the amuse- 
 ment that the hook affords. 
 IVith its solemn faith in the 
 gravity of its mysteries, with its 
 uncertain spellings and capital- 
 iffngs such as belong to even the 
 
vi 
 
 Editorkil Preface 
 
 
 Eighteenth Century’s early part, 
 with its quaint phrases and sly 
 observations (all the time stick- 
 ing strictly close to business), it 
 has a literary character, as well 
 as one occult, that is quite its 
 awn. 
 
 Fortune- telling with cards 
 and belief in fortune -telling 
 with cards — like a hundred 
 greater and lesser follies of the 
 mind — were straws floating 
 along the current of British life, 
 intellectual and social, during 
 the reign of George the Sec- 
 ond. This was the case, in 
 spite of the enlightening influ- 
 ences of religion, science, and 
 phibsophy. Modish society was 
 addicted to matters over which 
 argument was hardly worth 
 while — in which respect we find 
 
editorial Preface 
 
 vii 
 
 modish society the same in all 
 epochs. Our ancestresses par- 
 ticularly were often charming 
 women, and almost as often sen- 
 sible women; hut, like the men 
 of Athens, they were too super- 
 stitious. Often were they such 
 in a fond and amusing degree. 
 Lady Betty or Lady Selina— for 
 that matter, even Sir Tompkin 
 and my lord Puce — might be 
 spirited men and women of the 
 world. But they did not repu- 
 diate the idea of ghosts. Th^ 
 abhorred a mirroPs breakage. 
 They disliked a Friday's er- 
 rand. They shuddered over a 
 seven-times snee^eorat a howling 
 dog at midnight. And the gen- 
 tle sex, especially, would and 
 did tell fortunes almost as :{eal- 
 ously as play quadrille and 
 
 
viii 
 
 Editorial Prorate 
 
 
 piquet. Let us he courteous to 
 them. Let us remember that 
 Esoteric Buddhism, Faith Heal- 
 ing, and Psychic Phenomena 
 were not yet enjoying systematic 
 cultivation and solemn propa- 
 gandism; and that relatively few 
 dying folk were allowed to ''go 
 on with their dying” as part of 
 a process of healing which ex- 
 cludes medicine and insists on 
 the conviction that the invalids 
 are not ill! 
 
 But to our " Square of Sev- 
 ens ” — with which even a Gal- 
 lio may deign to be diverted — 
 especially if in using it the air 
 is found to be full of coinci- 
 dences. The story of the book 
 is already alluded to, as odd. 
 The inquisitive reader may be 
 referred to "certain copies only.” 
 
EAitorkil Preface 
 
 ix 
 
 Therein, inserted by After- 
 thought on the Authofs part” 
 (and therefore in a mere frac- 
 tion of whatever r^resented the 
 extremely small edition of the 
 work), may be sought the '‘Pref- 
 atory Explication, made for the 
 Benefit of My Friends, Male and 
 Female” In recounting the 
 origin of the manual, its au- 
 thor is candid, hut at the same 
 time too long-winded for quot- 
 ing entire. Enough to say, as 
 the substitute for a lengthy tale 
 of facts, that prior to the year 
 17^1 the author of “ The Square 
 of Sevens,” Mr. Robert Antro- 
 bus, “a Gentleman of Bath,” 
 was called in the month of No- 
 vember to pass sundry months 
 in Tretelly, that antique but 
 still lively little town of Corn- 
 
 
X 
 
 editorial Preface 
 
 
 wall. He describes himself as 
 ''exceedingly vexed and incon- 
 venienced by Summons on my 
 Affairs connected with the Par- 
 celling of a piece of Property, 
 unexpectedly acquired.” Mr. 
 Antrobus — who, by -the- lye, 
 may perhaps be associated in 
 the memories of readers of minor 
 Eighteenth-Century correspond- 
 ence with such notables of the 
 day as IVilliam Pitt, Dr. John- 
 son, Admiral Byng, Mark 
 Akenside, PVilliam Pultency, 
 the Duke of Cumberland, and 
 many others of the time — was a 
 sly, silent man of wealth. A Iso 
 was he one of considerable learn- 
 ing, out of the way and other, 
 including an interest in gypsies 
 and gypsy language remarkable 
 for the period. 
 
€ai(orfdl Preface 
 
 xi 
 
 He lodged at ” the only Inn 
 of any suitability '' in the place. 
 Thereby he made an unex- 
 pected acquaintance. Before a 
 week had elapsed, he became 
 much interested in the fact that 
 under the same roof, but in 
 more humble quarters than his 
 own, was lying and dying an- 
 other stranger in the place. 
 This was a man of some forty 
 years, known only as “Mr. 
 George. ” His home is not a clear 
 matter, nor that he had any rela- 
 tives except a little girl of six or 
 seven years old, his child. It is 
 likely that in alluding to him in 
 the “Prefatory Explication” 
 mentioned, Mr. Antrobus dis- 
 guised what was already ob- 
 scure, and that “Mr. George” 
 of the “troublesome Talk of the 
 
 
xii 
 
 editorial Preface 
 
 
 Inn -people” is an abbreviated 
 pseudonym. 
 
 Mr. Antrobus was a humane 
 and benevolent man, as well as 
 an inquisitive one. He delicately 
 assisted to make the sick guest 
 more comfortable in bis wasting 
 body. He won bis confidence, 
 genuinely compassionated bis 
 anxieties^ and presently pledged 
 himself to a most kindly office 
 — the care and provision in fut- 
 ure for the child soon to be 
 fatherless; long before this tim 
 motherless. IVbetber she was 
 motherless by the actual death 
 of the parent, or not, Mr. An- 
 trobus did not learn, or does not 
 tell. But be did learn, by a 
 confession, that ” Mr. George ” 
 
 was really George X ^ a gyp- 
 
 sy, and one withal of unusual 
 
editorial Proface 
 
 xiii 
 
 education and breeding. More 
 remarkable still, he was a gyp- 
 sy intensely embittered against 
 a race from which he had lived 
 for many years wholly with- 
 drawn. The cause of such 
 sentiments and renegade exist- 
 ence good Mr. Antrobus ‘Hryed 
 in vain, with much Delicacy ” 
 to discover. At the clearest, it 
 appeared to him to date from the 
 dying man’s marriage and from 
 some stormy period of bis career. 
 In any case, the renunciation of 
 ''Mr. George” in lot and part 
 in gypsy dom was of savage sin- 
 cerity . He would not tolerate the 
 idea of bis child being left open to 
 such influences; and, as a mat- 
 ter of her happy fortune in meeting 
 with our kind Bath antiquarian, 
 she never encountered them. 
 
 
xiv 
 
 Editorial Profaco 
 
 
 Recognising in bis benefac- 
 tor not only a generous man, 
 but one genuinely interested in 
 the whole topic of gypsy life, 
 character, and affairs (moder- 
 ately studied at the time pre- 
 ceding a Borrow or a Leland), 
 
 '‘George X entertained 
 
 Mr. Antrobus “for hours and 
 dayes” in what must have been 
 an extraordinarily free parlia- 
 ment. It discussed not merely 
 the concerns in general, but 
 the secrets, of Egypt. “Mr. 
 George” bad travelled much. 
 He bad acquired a deal of spe- 
 cial knowledge delightful to 
 Antrobus. It is provoking that 
 Antrobus did not commit more 
 of it to paper. But, among 
 other matters, Mr. Antrobus was 
 enlightened on the secrets of 
 
editorial Preface 
 
 XV 
 
 looking into dukkeripens in a 
 degree of minuteness that few 
 gorgios enjoy. 
 
 As part of this last confi- 
 dence — the rarest from one of 
 
 the Shod — did George X 
 
 disclose in course of certain 
 seances the “ Square of Sevens,” 
 that most particular and potent 
 method of prying into the past 
 and present and future. In it 
 figures the wonderful "'Paral- 
 lelogram,” with its “Master- 
 Cards,” “Influences,” and so 
 on — which our hook records. 
 
 Moreover, George X de- 
 
 dared that whereas most of his 
 race can or will use only cor- 
 rupted or quite frivolous ver- 
 sions of it, this statement set its 
 real and rare self forth with the 
 utmost purity, vdlue, and com- 
 
 
xvi 
 
 Eaiforiai Prefact 
 
 
 pleteness, in a degree ‘‘known 
 to only a few of all the families 
 of Egypt” As such a weighty 
 hit of Black Art did Mr. An- 
 trdbus make its details into a 
 hook. As such he printed it. 
 Doubtless he thought that a be- 
 trayed secret may lawfully be re- 
 betrayed as fully as possible. 
 
 Nevertheless, it was not so 
 much of a re-betrayal. For less 
 than what a publisher of this day 
 would call one fair-si{ed edi- 
 tion of “The Square of Sev- 
 ens,” printed for Antrobus by 
 the great John Gowne, of The 
 Mask book-shop, has ever ap- 
 peared. And, to account for the 
 semi- privacy surrounding the 
 little work, must be set forth the 
 dolesome incident of a printing- 
 house fire burning, “all except 
 
editorial Preface 
 
 xvii 
 
 about a do{en or so of copies,” 
 before there bad been any dis- 
 tribution of the Book” among 
 the author’s ‘'Friends, Male or 
 Female, or to the Publick.’ ’ By 
 some sudden change of bis own 
 mind or bis conscience, Mr. An- 
 trobus did not order any new 
 edition. The prefatory “Af- 
 terthought” mentioned may be 
 found, only if stuck in some 
 of the copies of the volume — 
 doubtless by quick and clumsy 
 after-pastings. 
 
 Why Antrobus did not give 
 the volume real currency is not 
 known. That be was urged to 
 do so is certain. It is likely, 
 however, that about this same 
 time some pecuniary losses with- 
 held him from such expensive 
 bobbies as printing books. He 
 
 
xviii 
 
 Editorial Preface 
 
 
 returned to Batb, and died there 
 in 1 740. W ^ have no particu- 
 lars of the event, nor are there 
 more than allusions to it in the 
 journals of the date or in the 
 letters of contemporaries. Lady 
 Lavinia Pitt, however, mentions 
 the disease as the smallpox, then 
 so much dreaded. 
 
 He left no family — except 
 his young ward, the mysterious 
 daughter of ‘'Mr. George” — of 
 the Tretelly Inn. To her An- 
 trdbus had given his name, and 
 she inherited half his estate. 
 Shortly after her kind guardi- 
 an's death she married an Exe- 
 ter gentleman of high family. 
 Her father, “ Mr. George” died 
 in the course of Mr. Antrohus’s 
 stay at Tretelly. 
 
 To some beaux and belles 
 
Editorial Preface 
 
 xix 
 
 of the reigns of George II. and 
 George III. this hook, originating 
 in the conversation of another 
 George — George the Unknown — 
 could well seem an interesting 
 matter. All the more might it 
 he so in vim of its scarceness, 
 from the first. There are no 
 more copies of it, despite the 
 fact that fashionable dilettanti 
 in things occult have horne it in 
 mind. Could anything he more 
 characteristic of Horace Wal- 
 pole than to find him in a letter, 
 from serene Strawberry Hill, 
 confessing — to no purpose — 
 that he is “ desirous of getting 
 hold of that damned queer old 
 woman’s fortune - telling hook, 
 ly Bob A ntrohus.” In the Dia- 
 ry of the sprightly Louisa Josepha 
 Adelaide^ Countess of Bute 
 
 
, XX 
 
 editorial Preface 
 
 > 
 
 ( afterward so unfortunate a wife 
 and an even more unfortunate 
 mother), she describes a droll scene 
 at a Scotch castle one evening, in 
 which the unexpected statements 
 of The Square of Sevens ” as 
 to the lives and characters of the 
 company ''put to the blush sev- 
 eral persons of distinction” who 
 rashly tempted its wisdom — es- 
 pecially including the aged Earl 
 of Lothian. For what Lady Mor- 
 gan thought of it, and the char- 
 acteristic story of the peculiar 
 terms on which she offered "to 
 sell her copy to Archbishop 
 Dacre,” the reader is referred to 
 the Bentijack Correspondence. 
 
 It is on its face a model meth- 
 od of fortune-telling with cards ; 
 easily the first for completeness 
 and directness. Our author, in 
 
Editorial Preface 
 
 xxi 
 
 a letter to bis cousin, Henry An- 
 trohus, quotes the eminent Brough 
 as styling it not only the most 
 authoritative little hook on its 
 topic, certainly the most interest- 
 ing one ; but the only volume on 
 the subject “ which is not a con- 
 fusing and puerile farrago of 
 nonsense — troublesome to bok 
 into and unsatisfactory to ac- 
 quire.” Certainly our ancient 
 enthusiast's record can be learned 
 and used systematically , exactly 
 as is the case with such excellent 
 and approved systems of chiro- 
 mancy as Mr. Heron- Allen’s 
 and others. It may be thought 
 fortunate for modern students 
 of card-divinatwn that the work 
 has survived, so complete and 
 clear. Its discreetness, too, is 
 delightfully adroit, when it sug- 
 
 
xxii 
 
 editorial Proface 
 
 
 gests that its tenses, past, pres- 
 ent, and future, are not as defi- 
 nite as one might desire. 
 
 There is no copy of the hook 
 in the British Museum, nor in 
 the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, 
 nor in any public collection of 
 America, England, or France 
 that I can name. One worn but 
 perfect MS copy is to be found 
 in a private library in the United 
 States. Another might yet be 
 sought in far Australia, if still 
 owned by descendants of Mr. 
 Antrobus' s young ward. Only 
 by a special personal interest in 
 the matter, and with a sense of 
 risk to an heirloom, / am per- 
 mitted to make the manuscript 
 for this edition. 
 
 Undoubtedly, as '‘R.A./’ 
 Mr. Antrobus dressed the mystic 
 — 
 
Editorial Preface 
 
 xxiii 
 
 Significancies” of the cards 
 in the book's '' Tavola in Eng- 
 lish less blunt and uncultivated 
 than they came to his ears from 
 the lips of the dying “George 
 
 /■’ But that he took no 
 
 other liberties of the least conse- 
 quence is prdty certain. He 
 respected the “ Supernaturall” 
 here, as in his grave brochure on 
 the Cock Lane Ghost, which 
 spectre, alas! mightily took him 
 in. And, by the way, the reader 
 will please observe in bis pages 
 here following that though the 
 method of “building" and so 
 of forming the “Square," and 
 of “ reducing” it, seems at first 
 glance bothersome and compli- 
 cated, it is only a childishly 
 easy peiformance in the way of 
 making a square of seven rows 
 
 
xxiv 
 
 Editorial Proface 
 
 
 of seven cards, and then of mak- 
 ing the rows only three cards 
 deep, at most ! Crary supersti- 
 tion and the aim at mummery 
 have added the details of process 
 that seem tedious. And, really, 
 they are not ineffective in a draw- 
 ing-room. 
 
 IVhat we read of thus as care- 
 fully put together, conscientious- 
 ly printed as a thing to he taken 
 with seriousness, in its author’s 
 time, may in our social day 
 serve a lighter end — and enter- 
 tain the parlor, rather than awe 
 the boudoir. IVith this intent, as 
 well as in offering something of a 
 literary curio, the present Editor 
 assists it toward the glimpses of 
 — not the moon, hut the electric 
 chandelier. And its Nineteenth- 
 Century sponsor hopes that many 
 
Editoriiil Preface 
 
 XXV 
 
 curious and pleasant ''fort- 
 unes” may he read hy it; and 
 that in its pages the ominous 
 Spade, the mischief - working 
 "Influencing- Card,” the stern 
 " Master- Card,” the ml "Fe- 
 male or Male Enemy,” and the 
 " Vain and Amoratious Man ” 
 (who must he ever, indeed, a 
 terrible comhination to endure t) 
 may not he frequently encoun- 
 tered — in any case, that along 
 with many other troubles and 
 trials, such unpleasing meetings 
 may not come outside the vaga- 
 ries of a pack of cards. 
 
 E. 1 ren.€us Stevenson. 
 New York, 1896. 
 
 
Bradamante. But is this authentic ? Is it 
 an original ? Is it a true, original thing, 
 sir? 
 
 GradasSO (making a Madam, ’tis as 
 authentic as very authenticity itself— 
 *tis truth’s kernel, originality’s core- 
 provided you are but willing to believe 
 it such. 
 
 Bradamante. Sir, you quibble. 
 
 Gradasso (making a leg). Madam, ’tis pre- 
 cisely in my vocation to quibble,— and 
 delicately. 
 
 From The Superglorious Life and Death of Prince 
 
 Ariius: A Tragedy, Act LI., sc. li. 
 
V 
 
 THE SQUARE 
 
 OF 
 
 SEVENS 
 
Of the Preparing of the “ Square of 
 Sevens ” from which is made the 
 Parallelogram : with the due Shuf- 
 fles, Deals, and Disposals thereto. 
 
 AKE a Pack of Fifty- 
 Two Cards, Shuf- 
 fle the same well, 
 Seven times. Then 
 present the Pack to the Per- 
 son whose Queries you seek 
 to answer, who accordingly 
 shall be called your Querist. 
 Therewith must your Querist 
 chuse from the Pack, without 
 seeing the cards in it — three 
 several Cards, which are to be 
 called his IVisb -Cards ; the 
 same being chosen with a Cut 
 between each Choice. The 
 Querist must not seek to see 
 these same Wish-Cards ; they 
 are to be laid apart on the Ta- 
 ble, or left to Repose in the 
 
4 
 
 Cbe $im<ire of $mnt 
 
 Of the Deal- 
 ing of a 
 First Sev- 
 en Cards. 
 
 Querist’s care, till all that fol- 
 loweth of the Square, the Par- 
 allelogram, and the Reading be 
 ended. 
 
 Again take in hand your 
 Pack and Shuffle it yet smartly, 
 there being Forty-nine Cards 
 now left in it. Proceed next 
 earnestly to Deal them forth 
 on the table in the following 
 Order and Manner, and without 
 first seeing their Faces. And 
 be solicitous of laying them 
 down just as they shall come. 
 Faces upward, in a Downward 
 and Oblique Line ; taking them 
 from the Topmost of the Pack 
 until you have laid forth Seven 
 Cards. And while you chuse 
 and lay down the same, and 
 indeed during all that here en- 
 sueth of Directions for your 
 
Of tDe Pret)<irind of ttoo Square 
 
 S 
 
 following, avoid foolish Con- 
 versation and sottish Pleasant- 
 ries with those about you; 
 
 having your mind serious to 
 your task. (Fig. i.) 
 
 Shuffle again ; and therewith 
 from the store of the Pack add 
 
6 
 
 ClK $4N<ire Of $ooon$ 
 
 to the above Seven Cards, a 
 Dealing of Six more, to be 
 taken from the Bottom of the 
 
 out knowledge of Suits or Val- 
 ues. They shall be laid in an 
 ascending Border of Six, to the 
 
Of tDe Preparing of the Square 
 
 7 
 
 Right Hand of your first Se- 
 ries. (Fig. 2.) 
 
 Again Shuffle ; and deal out 
 
 from theTop of the Pack Six oth- 
 er Cards, laying them in a down- 
 ward Border, leftward, to the 
 thirteen already placed. (Fig.3.) 
 
8 
 
 Cbe $mtt or $mn$ 
 
 Nineteen cards now face you 
 in the Series. Shuffle again, and 
 deal from the Bottom of the 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 Fi&4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pack, to the Right hand of 
 the Figure a -making, Five 
 cards, in an ascending Border. 
 (Fig- 4-) 
 
Of tbc Prepiiiina of tbe Square 
 
 9 
 
 Shuffle again ; and from the 
 Top of the Pack deal down 
 other Five Cards, laid in de- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ijg 5 
 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 scent, as a Left-Hand Border. 
 
 (Fig- ?•) 
 
 Your next Shuffling and Deal- 
 ing will cause you to lay down. 
 
10 
 
 Cbe Of $mn$ 
 
 from the Bottom of the Pack, 
 Four Cards, in a Right Ascen- 
 sion (Fig. 6), as you were lay- 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fig. 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ing a Tiled Floor or a Ceiling 
 Pattern. 
 
 There are now three-and- 
 thirty Cards laid. Again Shuffle, 
 
Of tbe Preparind of ti)o Sdiuire 1 1 
 
 and from the Top of the Pack 
 lay — downward — a Leftward 
 Border of Four Cards. (Fig. 7.) 
 
 Observe that each side of your 
 Figure thereby has Four Cards, 
 and its midmost Rows, hori- 
 zonta and perpendicular con- 
 
12 
 
 CDe of $tm% 
 
 Of the sud- 
 den ap- 
 pearing of 
 the Fair 
 Cross, 
 
 ♦ 
 
 tain, like the first Row laid, 
 Seven cards apiece ; and offer 
 thereby a Fair Cross, the Good- 
 liest Sign. 
 
 The first Figure needed, the 
 Square, is now nearing Shape ; 
 its Rows, diagonal or horizon- 
 tal or perpendicular, equalizing. 
 Shuffle, and deal from the Bot- 
 tom of the Pack, a Rightward 
 Border of Three Cards, upward 
 laid. (Fig. 8.) You have now 
 four rows of sevens, in your 
 figure : a Cross, withal still to be 
 found in its middle — reckoned 
 up and down and right and left. 
 
 You must now Shuffle — so 
 well as your lessened cards will 
 allow, yet with but one Shufl- 
 fle — and deal, from your Pack’s 
 Top, a downward Left-Hand 
 Border of Tte Cards. (Fig. 9.) 
 
Of tDe Prepaiind of ttoe $anaro 
 
 
 Note that you now have in 
 your Figure three Rows of 
 Sevens; which you may well 
 
 wish were Guineas for your 
 Purse. 
 
 Again Shuffle, as best you 
 can, and from your Bottom 
 

 CiK $mn Of $mti$ 
 
 Cards in the Pack deal Two 
 Cards, laid at the right, up- 
 ward, as in Fig. lo, nearly fin- 
 
 ishing your Square, now hold- 
 ing /our rows of Sevens. 
 
 Again mix your cards ; and 
 deal from their Top, Tw Cards, 
 
Of tiK Prepaiitid of tiK Smtt 
 
 
 leftward laid in descent, as 
 in Fig. II. How much, O, 
 Friend, in Human Life is near- 
 
 fectl 
 
 Confuse now, as best and 
 honestest you may (for you 
 
 Truly no 
 Man shall 
 reckon this 
 Life a Per- 
 fect Mat- 
 ter with 
 him! 
 
 R. A. 
 
i6 
 
 Cbe Square of Sevens 
 
 can hardly essay a shuffle), at 
 least Once your two last Cards: 
 and so complete your Square 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fig. 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 46' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Sevens, out of which will 
 presently rise the Parallelo- 
 gram; by laying its Forty- 
 eighth and Forty-ninth cards 
 
Of tiK Prepiiiiiid of fbe Sonare 
 
 17 
 
 in Opposition Corners, as in 
 
 Fig. 12. 
 
 Consider this Figure atten- 
 Pigria 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Square 
 is com- 
 pleted. 
 
 tively. For now have you be- 
 fore you the very Square of 
 Sevens : being a magicall Square 
 
i8 
 
 Cbe $4u<ire of Sevens 
 
 
 Figure of Forty -nine Cards, 
 whose Rows include ever 
 Seven Cards, taken anyways. 
 And that same mysticall Square 
 now must be made ready for 
 use in Reading your Querist’s 
 Fortune (or Experiences) by 
 making it into a Parallelogram 
 of smaller compass, through 
 what is called its formal Re- 
 duction. 
 
 # 
 
 • 
 
Of The Square Formally Reduced to 
 The Parallelogram: and of The 
 Master-Cards Sr The Sacrifice. 
 
 AVING thus built 
 your Square, chuse 
 the extreme right- 
 hand card in its Up- 
 permost Row. Lay it on such 
 card of the same Suit as iieth 
 nearest it, in the same Row, if 
 there be such; save on the 
 last Card on the Left of the Row. 
 This Leftward Card in each 
 Row is called the Row’s Mas- 
 ter-Card,2d\d. it cannot be cov- 
 ered by any other card, nor 
 be moved. It must open and 
 alone abide as it is; and the 
 Seven Master-Cards, counted 
 downward on the Square’s 
 left Edge, make what is called 
 the Master- Column. 
 
 If you have no other card 
 
 Of the Mas- 
 ter - Card 
 and Mas- 
 ter - Col- 
 umn. 
 
20 
 
 Cbe Square ef Sevens 
 
 
 of the same Suit as your right- 
 ward card — or none save those 
 of the Master- Column — let it 
 lie. But if you can lay it on 
 another, not a Master-Card, of 
 any degree in the Suit — for ob- 
 serve the degree here matters 
 not — so do. And then mark if, 
 leftward and toward the Master- 
 Card of the Row, lies another 
 of the same Suit. If so, take 
 up the two cards you laid to- 
 gether ; and lay them on this 
 third one. Look again and care- 
 fully; and, if another of the 
 Suit be found, carry to it the 
 former ones. So do until you 
 have no more of its Suit toward 
 its left, to join unto, and until 
 all the cards of one Suit in the 
 Row lie piled together; save 
 the Master-Card, which even 
 
or tDe ParaikiogNtii, etc. 
 
 21 
 
 if it be of the Suit lieth alone, 
 leftward, as it was first dealt 
 out and down, in the last Square. 
 Proceed then with the next 
 Suit in the Row : and so with 
 each Row, until you have thus 
 sorted all the cards save the 
 Master-Cards. This is the Re- 
 duction. 
 
 Close now and straiten-up 
 together each of the Rows thus 
 broken into Piles ; pushing ever 
 toward the Master- Row. Thus 
 have you a new Figure, smaller 
 than the last Square of Sevens, 
 and somewhat irregular : there 
 be in some Rows five cards, 
 in others less; even so few, 
 though rarely, as three or two. 
 Note that a Pile of Cards is 
 reckoned only as one card. 
 Note, too, that with cards that 
 
 Of the Re^ 
 duction. 
 
22 
 
 Cbe Square of Sevens 
 
 Of the Sac- 
 rifice. 
 
 have become hid beneath 
 others you have no concern. 
 
 Next, cast or lay aside in a 
 parcel, all Cards in the Figure 
 that are not contained in the 
 three Columns, leftward (the 
 Master-Column, and two other 
 Columns). If, your Reduction 
 done, any Row offer to sight 
 but two Cards — the Master- 
 Card and its neighbor — so 
 must the Row abide. But 
 this comes rarely. You will 
 best not disturb the Cards hid 
 in the Piles, for it is well to let 
 Sleeping Dogs lie, and more- 
 over needless Fingering and 
 Quiddling of the Parallelogram 
 is not commended. With the 
 cards thus rejected have you 
 no more to do. They are called 
 the Sacrifice. 
 
24 
 
 CDe $4U<ire of Sevens 
 
 The Parole 
 lelogram 
 made. 
 
 Now have you a Parallel- 
 ogram of One - and - Twenty 
 Cards in sight (Fig. 13 ), re- 
 duced from the Square that 
 formerly held Nine-and-For- 
 ty. With these One-and- 
 Twenty now under your eyes 
 will be your Querist’s affair. 
 
 You may indeed ask why so 
 much Labour is made of build- 
 ing the Square only to reduce 
 it, to despoil it, and to force it to 
 hide or to part with so many 
 of its Sevens — as by a sudden 
 Slaughter or a Panic or a Plague. 
 But it is held that by such 
 prior Shufflings, Dealings, and 
 Placings are much cherished 
 the accidental! Declarings of 
 Fate’s intelligence; and that 
 by the other Processes, em- 
 bracing The Sacrifice, there re- 
 
or ttoe Paraiielodram, etc. 
 
 2^ 
 
 main for Reading ]ws\. the Cards 
 decreed ; free from disposition 
 by light-fingered Craft, or from 
 ticklish Arrangements by Skill. 
 And the Square itself, the Par- 
 
 A Thing of 
 
 ent of the Parallelogram, is of 
 
 great Mys- 
 tery and 
 
 great Harmony as a Mystery. 
 
 Fair Har- 
 mony — as 
 
 Indeed all other Methods of 
 
 Jacobus of 
 Utrecht 
 
 reading fortune in Cards are 
 
 calleth the 
 Soul. 
 
 incomparable to it. 
 
 
Of Summarising in the Parallelo- 
 gram its Aspect, and of the Fortune 
 or Experience of the Querist that it 
 will Report. 
 
 Df Heart* 
 as a Por> 
 tent. 
 
 ITH your Parallelo- 
 gram thus built, ob- 
 serve it as an Whole; 
 and remark if it hath 
 an Agreeable or Unpleasing 
 Aspect — one Auspicious or 
 Unkind, according as it con- 
 tains rather the red or the black 
 Suits. For a Red Aspect is 
 kindly. A Black Aspect con- 
 tains many less favorable cards, 
 especially if they be Spades. 
 
 And, for another Matter, and 
 a wider Notice as to the Suits 
 of Cards: — it has long been 
 assured by those best know- 
 ing Card Intelligencies that the 
 Suit of Hearts is the Suit of the 
 Affections, Passions, Fancies 
 
Of $ttinniiiri2iiid tDe Jlspect, etc. 
 
 27 
 
 and Feelings. And the Suit of 
 Diamonds ever refers to Con- 
 
 Ot Dia- 
 monds, 
 
 dition in Life, Society, Wealth, 
 Position and the Fine Arts; 
 and contains many Comfort- 
 able Cards. In the Clubs lies 
 
 Of aids. 
 
 the Judgment, the Intellect, the 
 Will, and the Affairs of a Man’s 
 Brains, and what he doeth of 
 his own Mastery and Genius. 
 The Spades is ever the suit of 
 
 Of the omin- 
 ous Spades 
 
 doubtful or worse Prognos- 
 
 suit. 
 
 ticks ; of the Events that arbi- 
 trarily fall to Man’s Lot, those 
 things which hardly can any 
 Prescience or Plans or Con- 
 ditions of our own making 
 amend. Thence is it that in 
 especiall comes a serious, nay 
 even a gloomy appearance to 
 the Parallelogram. Your first 
 Glance at it, therefore, gives 
 
 
28 
 
 Square of Sevens 
 
 Of a particu- 
 lar Uncer- 
 tainty in a 
 Prognos- 
 tick. 
 
 you a Generali Character in 
 it, to state first to the Querist 
 before its details. 
 
 But particularly note that 
 Matters to be read in its Cards 
 may often refer not to the Fut- 
 ure, or to the Present, but to 
 the Past. Especially is this 
 the truth with the Old or Eld- 
 erly or with those Wed. Such 
 must expect to be told of Ex- 
 periences that lie behind them, 
 rather than before them, of 
 Good or Evil; for Fate oft al- 
 lows sparingly of Incident to 
 those of middle years, or later ; 
 and therewith she is often 
 pleased to make her Oracle 
 speak coldly to a Querist, of An- 
 cient Circumstances. Hence, 
 whether a Significancy in a 
 Card speak of what is come 
 
Of Snmiiiarizind tbe Jlspect, etc. 
 
 29 
 
 or is yet to come, at best is 
 none too certain ; only it is 
 true that the greater or harder 
 Experiences of Mortall Lives 
 seldom be duplicated. With 
 the Young or Unwedded, the 
 Significancies are of the Fut- 
 ure, with far more determina- 
 tion. 
 
 The Shot sel- 
 dom goeth 
 twice into 
 the same 
 Hole; and 
 a Dead 
 Trouble or 
 Joy rarely 
 Reviveth. 
 And a 
 
 Blessed 
 Thing that 
 His so ! 
 
Of the Reading of the Parallelogram, 
 according to the Tavola; and of the 
 Wish-Cards. 
 
 Of the Influ- 
 ences, In 
 which the 
 Philosoph- 
 ick will find 
 a likeness 
 to Human 
 Ci rcum- 
 stances. 
 
 ^OTE now your Top 
 Card in the Right- 
 Hand column, and 
 also the Card next 
 it, of course to the Leftward ; 
 which Leftward Card is spok- 
 en of as Influencing the oth- 
 er. The Significancy of it, 
 for good or evil, is given in 
 the lamia that follows in this 
 Book, by its proper Suit and 
 Degree : and this you will tell 
 to your Querist. N ext note the 
 card, which was just now an 
 Influencing Card, but which, 
 now in its turn, is to be con- 
 sidered according to the Influ- 
 ence cast on it by the Master- 
 Card, beyond it, leftward. De- 
 clare this Significancy. Last, 
 
Of tiK KedOing 
 
 31 
 
 declare what may be the Sig- 
 nificancy of the Master-Card, 
 as such and alone. And so 
 proceed, as to each card in the 
 Parallelogram, ever naming last 
 the Significance of the Master- 
 Card, until your Parallelogram 
 is all interpreted to the Que- 
 rist. And note that the Master- 
 Card even as an Influence is 
 not more potent than another, 
 (as far as is known), and that 
 its Dignity and Potency arise 
 only in its being uninflu- 
 enced ; and, so speaking, from 
 its Significance with a certain 
 Individuality not belonging to 
 its two Fellows. Nor are there 
 any Influences cast Upward or 
 Downward by the Cards, out 
 of the Row in which each 
 lieth. 
 
 
32 
 
 ClK Square of Sevens 
 
 Of the Qtie’‘ 
 rut's Wish, 
 
 Having read the Parallelo- 
 gram from beginning to end, 
 slowly and honestly, lay forth 
 those three Wish Cards, early 
 chosen by your Querist, but 
 not dealt in the Square. If 
 they contain more Red than 
 Black Cards, this shall come : 
 the Querist may wish a Wish 
 for his own Profit or Pleasure, 
 even in removal of an Evil 
 that hath been read to him 
 in the Parallelogram. If there 
 be Black rather than Red cards 
 in the Three, he must wish a 
 like wish for Another. And in 
 either case, if the cards decid- 
 ing his Privilege be of high 
 degree, such as Court Cards, 
 Aces or above the Eight, his 
 Wish is likely to be granted, 
 or at least it is not in vain in 
 
Of tbe Reaaind 
 
 33 
 
 some sort. But if the Cards 
 be low in Values he has de- 
 sired to Fruitlessness. 
 
 Let it be minded that by 
 the Phrase an high or a Im 
 Card in a Suit is ever meant, 
 respectively, the cards above 
 or below the Eight; the Aces 
 being reckoned as the highest 
 in a Suit. And indeed Cards 
 must ever be read with a Con- 
 sidering of their Degree, and 
 of the Sex in Court Cards. 
 Where there be no speciall Sig- 
 nificancies given to the De- 
 grees, the Judgement must 
 shift as best it can. 
 
 It is well not to oblige, of 
 any one evening, or on a set 
 and single occasion, more than 
 a Querist or so— maybe, oblige 
 at most three Querists — by 
 
 
34 
 
 CIK Square of Seoetis 
 
 
 making Squares of Sevens and 
 Reducing the same and Read- 
 ing what may lie therein. Too 
 much of any good thing makes 
 it over -common, blunts the 
 Appetite and dulls the Appre- 
 hensiveness of the Reader. 
 With fatigue, too, may come 
 Carelessness and, on good oc- 
 casion, even Lying : and, be- 
 sides, let us respect the Super- 
 natural!. 
 
I 
 
 THE TAVOLA OF SIGNIFICAN- 
 CIES AND INFLUENCES, PROPER 
 TO THE TRUE READING OF THE 
 PARALLELOGRAM; ADJUSTED IN 
 A SYSTEM OF ALTERNATIVES 
 
NOTE 
 
 In transcribing this “Tavola,** the Editor has some- 
 what modernized the spelling and capitalizing, for the 
 convenience of the reader. With reluctance, but of 
 necessity, he has also amended— -or emended— the phras- 
 ing, where it is in the original hardly consonant with 
 modern taste. 
 
OF HEARTS 
 
 
 V 
 
 
 a Master -Card, a 
 
 The A ce* 
 
 special Emotional 
 
 
 Experience. Influ- 
 
 
 enced by a King of 
 
 
 like Suit, there is figured an 
 
 
 Intimate Friend, or one in 
 
 
 whom the Querist is much 
 
 
 bound. By a Queen of like 
 
 
 Suit — an Emotion for a Wom- 
 
 
 an of beauty and charm. By 
 
 
 a Knave of like Suit, an At- 
 
 
 tachment to a Man younger 
 
 
 than the Querist. Influenced 
 
 
 by any high heart other than 
 
 
 those above, an Amorous or 
 
 
 Affectionate Temper of mind 
 
 
 or body. By a low heart, an 
 
 
 impressionable, kindly Nat- 
 
 
 ure. These are Five Special 
 
 
^8 
 
 Cbe Square of Sevens 
 
 The King, 
 
 Interpretings. The more gen- 
 eral are : influenced by a 
 Diamond, Good Fortune in 
 something, measured by the 
 degree of the Influencing 
 Card. By a Club, a Talent or 
 Gift to be made much of. By 
 a Spade, an Error, or Disap- 
 pointment, in the degree of 
 the influencing card. 
 
 As Master-Card, is figured 
 that the Querist deals or has 
 had much to do with a Man 
 of fair skin and light type, of 
 good temperament. Influ- 
 enced by zn Ace of like suit, 
 one notably unselfish. By 
 Knave, a Lover, Husband, 
 Friend. By a Queen, a Love- 
 match. By a Diamond, a Man 
 of Wealth or artistic nature. 
 By a high club, a Man of Ener- 
 
ZM Zmiit I)e4ii$ 
 
 
 gy withal ; by sl low club, one 
 of Prudence. By a Spade, a 
 man of some defect of Tem- 
 perament, or of a Chronic 
 Malady or Blemish, ominous 
 to him and others. 
 
 As Master-Card, is referred 
 to specially, an amiable, affec- 
 tionate Woman, rather one 
 sentimental than of intellect. 
 Influenced by like suit, if an 
 Ace, she is admired of Many ; 
 if a King, she is wedded, be- 
 trothed, or beloved by one in 
 especial. By a Knave of like 
 suit, she is beloved by a Male 
 Relative in especial, not of her 
 own near family. By other 
 cards of like suit, degrees of 
 regard. By a Diamond, a 
 Woman gifted, and esteemed 
 much in Modish Life. By 
 
 The Queen. 
 
40 
 
 Ctoe $<|Ndre of $mn$ 
 
 The Knave, 
 
 a Cluh, though not learned 
 she appreciates knowledge in 
 others. By a spade, she is not 
 of firm health ; or not of 
 wholly firm Virtue. 
 
 As Master-Card — the Que- 
 rist’s closest Friend ; yet likely 
 held such because of feeling 
 rather than judgment. In- 
 fluenced by an Ace of like 
 suit, there is no Inequality in 
 the affection. By a King of 
 like suit, Resemblance to the 
 Querist in physique or mind 
 or disposition. By a Queen of 
 like suit, one with distinctive- 
 ly feminine traits. By another 
 card of like suit, a popular 
 man with his fellows. By a 
 diamond, of wealth or social 
 Position ; but if by a Nine of 
 Diamonds, not enduring in 
 
ClK Dvoldt I)e 4 m 
 
 41 
 
 such Happy Fortune. By a 
 Club, a Friend of judgment 
 and good at advice. By a 
 Spade, a Friend of not too 
 sound health : or apt of offence. 
 
 As Master- Card, a general 
 reference to Matrimony, as be- 
 ing ever the card-matrimonial. 
 Influenced by like suit, a High- 
 Marriage and that auspicious: 
 by a low heart, a Marriage not 
 one's first or first-wished. By 
 a Diamond, a Marriage with 
 money in it. By a Club, a 
 Marriage of reason or of cir- 
 cumstances. By a Spade, an 
 Interrupted or more or less 
 Disastrous Match. 
 
 As Master-Card: a Card of 
 Good Augury for what we 
 wish for Another. Influenced 
 by its like suit, an unexpected 
 
 Ten. 
 
 Nine, 
 
42 
 
 ClK Sdiam of $mQ$ 
 
 Eight, 
 
 Seven, 
 
 Meeting, with a person much 
 affected or desired. By a Dia- 
 mond, a Pleasure in store. By 
 a Club, a Wish partly fulfilled, 
 rather than wholly. By a 
 Spade, a Wish fulfilled but 
 followed by some detrimen- 
 tal Event. 
 
 As Master- Card, a Love- 
 Interest. As influenced by like 
 suit, an Interest of much Ro- 
 mance. By a Diamond, a Lost 
 Article recovered. By a Club, 
 the Victory in a difference or 
 argument as to some plan or 
 act. By a Spade, a Caprice to 
 warm the heart ; or a new Arti- 
 cle of dress or household stuff. 
 
 As Master-Card: the Card 
 of Trust and Confidence ap- 
 proved of. Influenced by like 
 suit, honest Love, or Family 
 
ClK C4V0l4t hearts 
 
 43 
 
 regard. By a Diamond, wise 
 Trust in a commercial or social 
 step. By a Club, in a Secret. 
 By a Spade, Confidence mis- 
 placed in a person or event. 
 
 As Master-Card: A strong 
 Inclination, a Desire, or Action is 
 well rewarded. Influenced by 
 like suit, it concerns another 
 even more than ourselves, or as 
 much. By a Diamond, a step 
 of social or artistic or pecuniary 
 vantage ; save if the diamond 
 be the nine, which leaves the 
 result in Doubt of full success. 
 By a Club, a Matter of Judg- 
 ment and practical bearing, 
 seen and discussed of others ; 
 or a Remark, or a Letter of more 
 consequence than would ap- 
 pear. By a Spade, an Inclina- 
 tion or desire, not wholly hon- 
 
 Six, 
 
44 
 
 Cbe Square Of $mn$ 
 
 Five, 
 
 Four, 
 
 orable : or of brief realiza- 
 tion. 
 
 As Master- Card, an amusing 
 and diverting Affair heard of, or 
 entered into. I nfluenced by its 
 like suit, a Feeling not hitherto 
 returned is met at last. By a 
 Diamond, a Success in some- 
 thing particularly wished. By 
 a Club, a keen and shrewd 
 Chance at a remark to be well 
 caught. By a Spade, an Ache, 
 Pain, or Breaking. 
 
 As Master-Card, is figured 
 the existence of an obstinate 
 Sentiment toward one, or an 
 Opinion not of our own build- 
 ing up. Influenced by the like 
 suit, it is troublesome, causing 
 thought, new to one, or bur- 
 densome. By a Diamond, it is 
 known to others, or guessed. 
 
Ok ZmUt i)Mrt$ 
 
 4? 
 
 By a Club, it is apt to lead to 
 acts officious or of manoeuvre. 
 By a Spade, it is a Sentiment 
 based on error and lack of full 
 insight ; or it will be abruptly 
 weakened. 
 
 An Act of Charity and Gen- 
 erosity, by or toward the Que- 
 rist, if read as Master- Card. 
 Influenced by like suit. Action 
 in a matter of very confidential 
 sort. By a Diamond, it is in 
 part a Matter of Money or Of- 
 fice or from a Superiour — and 
 may be associated with an in- 
 vestment, a society, an enter- 
 tainment. By a Club, it fig- 
 ures a Visit, or Visitor. By a 
 Spade, a Change of Opinion in 
 some near matter is enjoined, 
 or the Loss of a good will ; or a 
 Surprise not welcome wholly. 
 
 Three. 
 
46 CDe $4tiare of $00011$ 
 
 As Master- Card, favorable 
 News, or a Letter acceptable. If 
 influenced by its like suit, the 
 Person from whom it comes, 
 or also referred to in it, is much 
 valued, or a near Relative. By 
 a Diamond, a Present, a Visit, 
 a Meeting of service, a Letter, 
 respectively. By a Club, a 
 “yes” in a matter open. By 
 a Spade, it concerns Another 
 more than the Querist ; or else 
 will not be altogether correct 
 in statement. 
 
OF DIAMONDS 
 
 
 ♦ 
 
 
 Master- Card, a tan- 
 
 The Ace, 
 
 gible and material 
 
 
 Success in some 
 
 
 Matter of Society, 
 
 
 Money, Art, or Oifice. Influ- 
 
 
 enced by a King of like suit, a 
 
 
 Loss recovered. By any other 
 
 
 card of like suit. Information 
 
 
 and certainty of an Affair of 
 
 
 purchase, bargain or sale, much 
 
 
 to advantage. By a Heart, a 
 
 
 wise Marriage, the settlement 
 
 
 of a Difference, an open mat- 
 
 
 ter closed to satisfaction. By 
 
 
 a Club, a prudent Choice. By 
 
 
 a Spade, a Cost or expense. 
 
 
 perhaps a loss, before a satis- 
 
 
 factory and favorable Event, or 
 
 
 in course of it. 
 
 
48 
 
 ClK $<HMre of Swm 
 
 The King, As Master-Card, is figured a 
 brilliant, honorable and suc- 
 cessful Man, of standing ; and 
 perhaps of marked taste in 
 art, belles-lettres and the like; 
 and gifted in them. Influ- 
 enced by its UkesmUz Man with 
 much original in him, shrewd 
 in money or gift. By a Heart, 
 a Male Character of kindly and 
 humane traits ; or one sensitive 
 and easily moved in his mood. 
 By a Club, a Man in profes- 
 sional life, and of good mental 
 balance. By a Spade such a 
 life is threatened or broken, 
 or not free from Self-seeking 
 at others’ expense. 
 
 Th, Queen. As Master-Card is indicated 
 the existence of a brilliant, gift- 
 ed Woman ; fond of social life 
 and modish things, of dress or 
 
Cbe Dvolat Diamonds 
 
 49 
 
 expensive and rare matters; 
 perhaps of Talent in art or 
 literature. Influenced by like 
 suit, one of brilliancy rather 
 than feeling or self-sacrifice. 
 By a Heart, if high, of affec- 
 tion more than is thought; if 
 bw, beautiful. By a Club, a 
 Woman executive; of some 
 audacity ; restless or self-de- 
 pending: admiring intellect of 
 solid kind tho’ maybe lacking 
 it. By a Spade, a Woman not 
 devoted to benefiting others; 
 and threatened by misfortune ; 
 or with a hidden Grievance. 
 
 As Master - Card, is figured 
 as within the Querist’s life, a 
 Relative, likely so made by 
 birth or marriage; and ever 
 disposed to use the tie for per- 
 sonal advantage. Influenced 
 
 The Knave, 
 

 CDe Square or Sevens 
 
 Ten* 
 
 by like suit, the Relative is not 
 remote, and marriage or love is 
 so utilized by him, now ; espe- 
 cially by weakness of judg- 
 ment, or by over -affection on 
 another’s part. By a Heart, a 
 shrewd Business Success. By 
 a Club, a sudden Discovery as 
 to a person. By a Spade, a 
 Deferment of the Querist’s 
 prosperity in a matter. 
 
 Also, as Master - Card; a 
 brilliant, entertaining, but too 
 trifling and irresponsible Man : 
 or a vain and amoratious man 
 if a knave of hearts influence 
 it, often is figured. 
 
 As Master-Card, a valuable 
 Possession. Influenced by 
 like suit, is concerned one in- 
 trinsically of value, as jewels, 
 money or plate, a house or 
 
ClK Cavoiat Di4tiioiid$ 
 
 
 estate. By a Heart, a Secret ; 
 a Marriage. By a Club, the 
 aforesaid or another Posses- 
 sion will be (or has been) 
 won by special exertions of 
 the Querist’s abilities, or so to 
 be kept. By a Spade, it is en- 
 dangered. 
 
 This is the Unlucky Red 
 Card if figuring as Master - 
 Card; meaning a personal 
 Event of importance going 
 awry ; a Subtraction that must 
 be admitted to others. But if 
 influenced by like suit, it is a 
 favorable card and indicates a 
 pleasing Journey, or Meeting. 
 By a Heart, an Enemy or evil 
 opinion altered in your favor. 
 By di Club 3. Proposal of tempt- 
 ing kind. By a Spade, a Plan 
 that in success is doubtful and 
 
 Nine, 
 
 LIBRARY 
 

 CDe Sdluire of Sevens 
 
 Eighth 
 
 Seven, 
 
 partial, or troublesome to an- 
 other. 
 
 A card of good omen if a 
 Master-Card, in the Practical 
 Affairs of life, business, so- 
 ciety, or art, or one of them. 
 Influenced by a like suit, in a 
 Commercial thing; a Meeting 
 wished ; an influence desired. 
 By a Heart, a wealthy and su- 
 perior, or happy Marriage. By 
 a Club, a Communication of 
 importance or good. By a 
 Spade, an Indiscretion that 
 were better not committed by 
 your fault ; or a Negligence. 
 
 As Master-Card, the card of 
 special Report, Conversation 
 about one, or of Action by an- 
 other; in a degree affecting 
 one’s outward affairs. By a 
 Heart, from a near Friend. By 
 
Cb( ZmMt Di4niond$ 
 
 ^3 
 
 a Club, where you esteem or 
 respect. By a high spade, with 
 error or even untruth in it, 
 mayhap not intended, but a 
 pity. By a law spade, it is 
 somewhat written. 
 
 As Master-Card, a commer- 
 cial or social Step, a Purchase 
 of importance ; by the Que- 
 rist. Influenced by like suit, 
 attractive and unexpected. By 
 a Heart, in regard to making a 
 new Acquaintance, or bringing 
 a Change of feeling toward 
 some one. By a Club, a Mat- 
 ter of Necessity; or an affair 
 dealing with a lawyer, doctor, 
 clergyman, or servant: or a 
 Step of wisdom as well as at- 
 traction. By a Spade, if high, 
 a Loan of money: if low, a 
 small Borrowing. 
 
 Six. 
 

 Cl)e Square of Sevens 
 
 Five, 
 
 Four, 
 
 A good omen ; as a Master- 
 Card, meaning a Gift to the 
 Querist. Influenced by like 
 suit, is figured a personal Or- 
 nament or convenience. By 
 a Heart, a Gift is to be made. 
 By Club, it comes with for- 
 mality and after debate, and 
 considering for some time, or 
 for special circumstances. By 
 a Spade, a Disappointment to 
 another dear to you, is figured. 
 
 As Master- Card, an Honor 
 or Favour or Compliment or 
 bit of Luck. Influenced by 
 like suit, in society, or art. 
 By a Heart, long desired ; and 
 perhaps more pleasing than 
 wise or useful. By a Club, 
 due to one’s own judgment 
 and persistency. By a high 
 spade, entailing trouble or cost. 
 
CDe Cavol4s Diamonds 
 
 5? 
 
 By a km spade, at the cost of 
 another’s misfortune ; or not 
 wholly our desert rather than 
 another’s ; or brief. 
 
 As Master-Card, a sudden 
 Surprise in an event. Influ- 
 enced by like suit, agreeable, 
 and social or pecuniary or in 
 the arts. By a Heart, Surprise, 
 agreeable, yet not to one’s in- 
 terest or particular profit. By 
 a Club, a social Responsibility. 
 By a Spade, a Death or a Mis- 
 fortune to another likely en- 
 ters into it. 
 
 A gift or fortunate Purchase, 
 if a Master-Card. Influenced 
 by the like suit, an Engage- 
 ment or Burden happily bro- 
 ken or dismissed; a Good 
 Riddance, a Disgrace or Plague 
 ended. By a Heart, an Offer — 
 
 Three. 
 
 Two. 
 
56 
 
 tbe Sqmz of Swm 
 
 
 in love, friendship, trade, trav- 
 el, profession, or pleasure. By 
 a Club, a Letter or Interview of 
 consequence. By a Spade, a 
 Service that one is glad of, or 
 a Gift ; but bringing obligation 
 with it, sooner or later. 
 
OF CLUBS 
 
 
 
 
 Master-Card, is fig- 
 
 Thi Ace. 
 
 ured an Event of 
 
 
 material weight, 
 
 
 involving use of 
 
 
 judgment, wiil, shrewdness, 
 
 
 or decision. Influenced by 
 
 
 the like suit, high or low, its 
 
 
 effect is the more for our own 
 
 
 making. By a Heart, is seen 
 
 
 a Matter in which our Senti- 
 
 
 ments are specially enlisted. 
 
 
 perhaps in contest with judg- 
 
 
 ment or tastes or duty. By a 
 
 
 Diamond, the affair is in soci- 
 
 
 ety, artistic life, money, or re- 
 
 
 sponsibility to others as well. 
 
 
 By a Spade, a Mischance or 
 
 
 Disappointment is part of it; 
 
 
 often faithfully hid, or to be hid. 
 
 
53 De Smn of $mn$ 
 
 King, As Master- Card, our rela- 
 tionship to a strong mental or 
 moral Influence of the male 
 sex, respected and deferred to ; 
 or sure so to be. Influenced 
 by its like suit, it is a culti- 
 vated and professional one, or 
 involuntary. By a high heart, 
 it arises in a near relative or 
 one for whom a special affec- 
 tion is felt. By a low heart, it 
 is either secret or remote ; or 
 it may be that it is religious, 
 in part. By a Diamond, our 
 outward life must have con- 
 cern in it. By a Spade, the in- 
 fluence is of doubtful or worse 
 healthfulness or profit to us.’ 
 The Queen. As Master~Card, a marked 
 female Influence on the Que- 
 rist, in the way of respect, 
 judgment, advice, or authority : 
 
Cbc Cd00l4: £\m 
 
 
 not necessarily as to a relative. 
 Influenced by the like suit, a 
 person of coldish and grave 
 disposition. By a high heart, 
 of strong impulses and disin- 
 terested ; by a low heart, trou- 
 blesome, often importunate 
 and officious. By a Diamond, 
 not married ; and of wealth or 
 social esteem; talented. By 
 a Spade, not altogether open 
 or disinterested; divorced or 
 disappointed ; according to the 
 nature of the Card. 
 
 As a Master-Card, Relation- 
 ship with a well-meaning, but 
 over- rash and hasty or san- 
 guine Man ; not necessarily 
 but likely quite youthful, and 
 selfish in inclination, or too 
 easily influenced by others of 
 greater art : an Associate, part- 
 
 The Knave. 
 
6o 
 
 €D( Sqture of $mn$ 
 
 Ten. 
 
 ner, friend, or Employee in 
 some matter of worth. Not 
 to be relied on as one would 
 gladly do. Influenced by his 
 like suit, Circumstances assist 
 him or make of less or more ac- 
 count his weakness or strength. 
 By a Heart, he is inclined to be 
 led by tastes and passions and 
 by skilled flattery, or to over- 
 trust. By a Diamond, he is in 
 love with externals, fond of 
 dress, or notice, or pleasure; 
 ambitious. By a Spade, he 
 meets with Losses to himself 
 and the Querist, or he makes 
 some particular Error or False 
 Step. 
 
 As Master-Card, Success in 
 a matter long pursued. In- 
 fluenced by its suit, one of 
 troublesome Conflict of con- 
 
Cbe Cavolat eiuDs 
 
 6i 
 
 duct or advices. By a Heart, 
 in an affair of love ; or calling 
 for courage ; or for another, as 
 well as oneself. By a Dia- 
 mond, an Opinion or Prejudice 
 overcome in others, through 
 our persistency, or argument. 
 By a Spade, an Inheritance; 
 or a Matter needing much 
 watchfulness and care, when 
 known. 
 
 As Master-Card, the need 
 of much Decision in our own 
 judgments in an affair of im- 
 portance; a need of disre- 
 garding counsels of Others. 
 Influenced by the like suit, 
 several persons or circum- 
 stances Oppose, perhaps sly- 
 ly. By a Heart, there is a 
 wounding of tenderer feelings 
 or relationship in it. By a 
 
 Nine, 
 
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 Eight, 
 
 Diamond, the affair is of Es- 
 tate, Position, Money, Comfort, 
 or Purchase. By a Spade, be- 
 ware lest so is assumed no 
 greater Responsibility than can 
 be easily carried ; or acknowl- 
 edged. 
 
 An absent Friend reflects 
 
 Seven, 
 
 on you in a particular matter. 
 This as Master- Card. Influ- 
 enced by like suit, a Convic- 
 tion or responsibility of much 
 weight laid on one. By a Dia- 
 mond, a Choice of a wife, or 
 precious article. By a Heart, 
 Cause of Concern for a friend. 
 By a Spade, you shall give 
 Counsel not followed, and 
 spend Thought thrown aside. 
 
 As Master- Card, a trouble- 
 
 
 some Situation dissolved. In- 
 fluenced by like suit, a Secret 
 
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 imparted of interest and length. 
 By a Heart, undo something 
 very newly done. By a Dia- 
 mond, beware of an Indiscre- 
 tion or Error. By a Spade, a 
 Neglect or piece of forgetful- 
 ness will be of cost to mend 
 or replace : perhaps, if a high 
 spade, not to be mended at all. 
 
 As Master -Card, cancel at 
 once an Agreement, a Purpose, 
 or wholly change a Decision. 
 Influenced by the like suit, a 
 card of fortunate aspect. By a 
 Heart, the call to assist An- 
 other, near to one. By a Dia- 
 mond, a Hazard, successful. 
 By a Spade, a sudden Oppo- 
 sition. 
 
 As Master-Card, a Guest, a 
 Visit, a Letter, each needing 
 exercising of prudence or self- 
 
 Six, 
 
 Five, 
 
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 Four. 
 
 Three. 
 
 restraint ; but acceptable. In- 
 fluenced by the like suit, a 
 Proposal urged. By a Heart, 
 a Wound or Bruise. By a 
 Diamond, a strong Temptation, 
 or a Journey. By a Spade, 
 an Argument or Dispute on a 
 matter. 
 
 An important Request of 
 the Querist, if read as Master- 
 Card. If influenced by like 
 suit, one not overmuch to 
 your wish. By a Heart, you 
 Sacrifice somewhat to grant 
 it. By a Diamond, it involves 
 anon a Change. By a Spade, 
 the cost will not be valued for 
 its worth. 
 
 As Master -Card, a sad or 
 serious Duty or Care. As in- 
 fluenced by its like suit, a 
 Choice of two things; both 
 
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 desired much, but one to be 
 dismissed. By a Diamond, 
 Luck, or a forthcoming Pleas- 
 ure. By a Heart, a handsome 
 Man or Woman to be met and 
 attracted toward one. By a 
 Spade, a Matter to make one 
 angry, or heart-sick. 
 
 A card of doubtful omen 
 when a Master, figuring a 
 grave Confidence, of interest to 
 learn, but burdensome rather 
 than easily to be passed by. 
 By its like suit, some 111 News. 
 By a Heart, a Sentiment not 
 wise though keen. By a Dia- 
 mond, an awkward Meeting. 
 By a Spade, a Piece of News 
 acted on, and then found un- 
 truly reported : or Advice 
 
 seemingly good, but not so. 
 
 Two, 
 
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 The Ace, 
 
 (The Suit of Evil Omen and of Un~ 
 "Welcome Influences.) 
 
 K S Master - Card, the 
 Ace figures a spe- 
 cial Misfortune, Un- 
 happiness, or Hurt 
 to one’s life, by no means 
 avoidable, and perhaps not 
 discernible at once. Influ- 
 enced by the King of its like 
 suit, sudden: by the Queen, 
 long continuing ere complete ; 
 by the Knave, 111 - Fortune 
 through Persons ; by the ten, 
 through concurrence of sundry 
 events. By any other spade, 
 sudden. By a Heart, Ill-Fort- 
 une in the Affection. By the 
 
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 Diamond, in the eye of Others, 
 
 
 in society, money or art. By 
 
 
 a Club, to our fear. 
 
 
 As Master -Card is figured 
 
 The King, 
 
 a particular Man, our enemy, 
 
 
 resolute and powerful. Influ- 
 
 
 enced by its suit, it signifies 
 
 
 News of a Death : or of mis- 
 
 
 fortune to others. By a Heart, 
 
 
 it involves abuse of Trust or 
 
 
 Affection. By a Diamond, is 
 
 
 figured a Man of social station 
 
 
 and wealth or talents. By a 
 
 
 Club, a Man cautious and re- 
 
 
 served, and hence perhaps 
 
 
 unsuspected for his real Ma- 
 
 
 levolency. 
 
 
 As Master- Card, a Female 
 
 The Queen, 
 
 Enemy, evil wishing or evil- 
 
 
 working. Influenced by the 
 
 
 like suit, known or soon to be 
 
 
 shown as such to you, and 
 
 
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 The Knave* 
 Ten* 
 
 the work. By a Diamond, 
 comely and clever or gifted. 
 By a Club, intellectual and 
 audacious. By a Heart, her 
 enmity arises in jealousy or 
 vanity or in revengefulness: 
 or natural malice. 
 
 As Master-Card, a Man hav- 
 ing no love for you and in- 
 clined to wrong and hurt you ; 
 but happily limited in Op- 
 portunity. Influenced by like 
 suit, often seen of you. By 
 a Heart, abusing your Trust, 
 smaller or greater. By a Dia- 
 mond, adroit rather than bold. 
 By a Club, cruel and slander- 
 ous. 
 
 As a Master-Card, an Event 
 or Project to your disadvan- 
 tage and regret. Influenced 
 by the like suit, a Disgrace. 
 
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 By a Heart, a Quarrel. By a 
 Diamond, a Cheat. By a Club, 
 a Hindrance. 
 
 
 As Master-Card, a Lie, or an 
 
 Nine, 
 
 unwelcome Meeting or Visit. 
 Influenced by like suit, if a 
 high card a Lie ; if a low, a piece 
 of undesired News or Letter. 
 
 
 By a Heart, a sudden Alarm or 
 Anxiety. By a a Broken 
 
 Promise : or a Secret told. 
 
 
 As Master -Card, an Illness. 
 
 Eight, 
 
 By a high influencing card of 
 the suit, a long Illness: by a 
 lower, a shorter one. By a 
 an illness to Another 
 dear to one. By a Diamond, 
 a Misfortune in an affair. By 
 a an Accident. 
 
 As Master-Card, a tempting 
 Proposal that must be de- 
 clined. By the like suit, a 
 
 Seven, 
 
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 Six. 
 
 Sharp Quarrel. By a Dia- 
 mond, a Risk not welcome. 
 By a Club, a Disappointment 
 in a person or thing or event. 
 By a Heart, one arrives just 
 too late for a certain Pleasure 
 or Good. 
 
 As Master -Card, a Disap- 
 
 Five. 
 
 pointment. Influenced by its 
 own suit, a Journey not of 
 pleasure, or else unpleasant. 
 By a Diamond, a fall. By a 
 Heart, a mistake of inconve- 
 nience. By a Club, must be 
 read an unfavorable Sign. 
 ks Master- Card, an Expense. 
 
 Four. 
 
 Influenced by its own suit, a 
 Neglect. By a Heart, a Wor- 
 riment or Grief. By a Dia- 
 mond, a doubtful Success. By 
 a Club, a Death heard of. 
 
 An unfavorable Master- Card, 
 
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 affecting some near Concern 
 to the Querist ; belike it shall 
 end less well than was hoped. 
 Influenced by like suit, a Sep- 
 aration not welcome. By a 
 Heart, a capricious Change of 
 inclination. By a Diamond, a 
 Perplexity. By a Club, a Loss. 
 
 As Master-Card, a suddenly 
 changed Plan, a Discomfiture. 
 Influenced by its like suit, a 
 loss. By a Heart, a sudden 
 Failure, a Doubt or Fear. By 
 a Diamond, a Breach or Quar- 
 rel. By a Club, a sheer Folly, 
 not to be warned away by a 
 friend. 
 
 As Master- Card, you must 
 say “NO,” when you would 
 say “ YES.” Influenced by its 
 like suit, a Displeasure. By a 
 Heart, an Evil Habit to burden. 
 
 Three. 
 
 Two. 
 
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 By a Club, a Strong Effort of 
 no use. By a Diamond, a 
 Folly, or a Mare’s Nest. 
 
 In this evil suit of Spades 
 there be many other special 
 Significancies ; but they are 
 not pertinent to this method. 
 
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