C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Cards

A snug and friendly game at cards.

Cowper.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Cervantes.

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand.

Swift.

Have I not here the best cards for the game,
To win this easy match?

Shakespeare.

Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.

Shakespeare.

Whist, then, delightful whist, my theme shall be.

A. Thompson.