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[column 1] Playes and games ./ Games at Cardes see Rabelais libr[crossed out: i] 1.ch.22. Romanes would make a paueise like the roofe of a house upon which 2 armed men did runne up and downe and incoun= ter. liu. f.169

Comedus sermocinatur Tragadus vociferatur funerepus periclitatur praestigiator furatur Histrio gesticulatur. Blinde men coursinge a hog bremensis 128.

The mexicans play with a cudgell like a paste rouler wth theyr feete tossinge the same high and lowe in the ayre as a ball .Cortez.f.178. In prometheus Academy at Athens is an alter from wch they runne wth burninge lampes into the citty the quenched torche giues place to his successor, the farthest carier hath the price .pausanias .26.

The Thracians hange a rope from a beame wth a riuinge knot therin vnder it lyes a rounde stone ox wth a sworde in his hande puts his necke in the rope standinge on the stone, if hee can cut the rope so hee escapes else hee hanges ./

Cardes. Unu: quinqs duo Rex quatnor et tria Septem Sex Regina [crossed out: duo?] garrulus octo decem. novem

Set the cardes in this sorte, and beinge once cut, seeinge on yu may dell all the reste as they com.

Antient games see Onuphrius Cirientes f.217

[column 2] Runninge at the Quint in Stoes Survey of London f 93.