Spade Cards with Flowers

Spade Cards with Flowers

This Valentine a hint imparts

To Ladies who would win in hearts

The ace whose Power commands the whole

[Shews modest] Candor’s pure Control

Then Prudence shines in regal State

With Sensibility his mate

 

White [gay] good humour n[o]thing [cost]

Attends the Waiting knave of [both]

[h]ail Power’s combin’d to charm and please

The honours of the heart are these

And she who justly these can claim

Shall need no [trick] to win her Game