quare.

Of the _Querist's Wish_.

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 deciding 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 some sort. But if the Cards
be low in Values he has desired to Fruitlessness.

Let it be minded that by the Phrase an _high_ or a _low_ 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 Considering of their
Degree, and of the Six in Court Cards. Where there be no speciall
Significancies given to the Degrees, the Judgement must I 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 making Squares of Sevens and Reducing the same and
Reading what may lie therein. Too much of any good thing makes it
over-common, blunts the Appetite and dulls the Apprehensiveness
of the Reader. With fatigue, too, may come Carelessness and,
on good occasion, even Lying: and, besides, let us respect the
Supernaturall.

THE _TAVOLA_ OF SIGNIFICANICIES AND INFLUENCES, PROPER TO THE
TRUE _READING_ OF THE PARALLELOGRAM; ADJUSTED IN A SYSTEM OF
ALTERNATIVES

NOTE

In transcribing this "Tavola," the Editor has somewhat modernized
the spelling and capitalizing, for the convenience of the reader.
With reluctance, but of necessity, he has also amended--or
emended--the phrasing, where it is in the original hardly consonant
with modern taste.

OF HEARTS

_The Ace_.

As a _Master-Card_, a special Emotional Experience. Influenced
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 Woman of beauty and charm. By a Knave
of like Suit, an Attachment 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 Nature. These are Five Special
Interpretings. The more genera