 | Robert Nares - English language - 1888 - 524 pages
...hold your card, I shall pull damn the tide, I am not good at the game. Utas. Great D. of Fiar., iv, 1. And if now, At this downright game, I may but hold your cards, I'll nnipnll down the side. Ib., Vnnat. Comb., ii, 1. Ev. Aspatia, lake her part. Dula. I will refuse it,... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 562 pages
..."Yes, faith, Madam, Mavis and she will set up o side". And in Massinger's Unnatnral Combat, Beigarde says to Malefort, „. . . And if now, At this downright game, I may bnt hold your cards, or pull down a side, to cause the loss of the game by ignorauce or treachery:... | |
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I must put in for that, since out tried friendship Hath lasted from our infancy. Belg. I have served Under your command, and you have seen me fight, And handsomely, though I say it ; and if now, At this downright game, I may but hold your cards, I '11... 
