merly held
Nine-and-Forty. With these One-and-Twenty now under your eyes
I will be your Querist's affair.

You may indeed ask why so much Labour is made of building 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 accidentall
Declarings of Fates intelligence; and that by the other Processes,
embracing The _Sacrifice_, there remain for _Reading_ just the
Cards decreed; free from disposition by light-fingered Craft, or
from ticklish Arrangements by Skill.

A Thing of Great Mystery and Fair Harmony--as Jacobus of
Utrecht calleth the _Soul_.

And the Square itself, the Parent of the Parallelogram, is of great
Harmony as a Mystery. Indeed all other Methods of reading
fortune in Cards are incomparable to it.

_Of Summarizing in the Parallelogram its Aspect and of the
Fortune or Experience of the Querist that it will Report_.

With your Parallelogram thus built, observe it as an Whole; and
remark if it hath an Agreeable or Unpleasing _Aspect_--one
Auspicious or Unkind, according as it contains rather the red or
the black Suits. For a Red Aspect is kindly. A Black Aspect
contains many less favorable cards, especially if they be _Spades_.

Of _Hearts_ as a Portent.

And, for another Matter, and a wider Notice as to the Suits of
Cards:--it has long been assured by those best knowing Card
Intelligences that the Suit of _Hearts_ is the Suit of the Affections,
Passions, Fancies and Feelings.

Of _Diamonds_.

And the Suit of _Diamonds_ ever refers to Condition in Life,
Society, Wealth, Position and the Fine Arts; and contains many
Comfortable Cards.

Of _Clubs_.

In the _Clubs_ lies the Judgment, the Intellect, the Will, and the
Affairs of a Man's Brains, and what he doeth of his own Mastery
and Genius.

Of the ominous _Spades_ suit.

The _Spades_ is ever the suit of doubtful or worse Prognosticks;
of the Events that arbitrarily fall to Man's Lot, those things which
hardly can any Prescience or Plans or Conditions 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 you a Generall Character in it, to
state first to the Querist before its details.

Of a particular _Uncertainty_ in a Prognostick.

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