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— Parole, is after a punter has won a fum equal to his 
fl 'ke, and is determined to purfue his fortune, and wager 
what he has won, in addition to his (take on his card ; to 
five trouble, lie declines receiving it, but bends the cor¬ 
ner of the fame or fotne other card or a head card. This 
is termed a cock ; but as the ufe of this word gives rife to 
fonie immodeft allufions, the term paroli is now invariably 
tiled in good company. By the next event, the punter 
either lofes the (take on his card, and his claim on the 
bank, or receives thrice the value of his (take, which is 
equivalent to winning two or lofing two, as one of the 
three was his own before, but.left in the bank fund. A 
paroli may be pnrehafed by paying the banker a fum equal 
to the (take. To make paroli , is to play as deep as you 
can, to make the molt of your game, to purfue fortune 
vehemently and with ardour, as molt bankers limit the 
fivft (lake to a moderate fum, fuch as fi ve or ten guineas ; 
there being but few unlimited barks. — Paix, French for 
peace, implies moderation, in contradiftinclion to paroli. 
Paix is, when the punter having won, is unwilling to 
make a paroli, and hazard his (lake a fecond time; but 
bends his card in the middle, fo that it (lands like a 
chevron. The French call it faire nn pont , or to make a 
bridge. It is called making a paix, when the banker goes 
double or quit with the puiver. If the next event is in 
favour of the punter, tlie banker pays him double his 
flake, or the punter may make a double paix by bending 
another'-card, and punting on it. If the event is againft: 
the punter, he lofes only that which he had before won 
and left in the bank ; but does not lofe It is (lake.— Paix- 
paroli is when a punter has won a paroli, and is entitled to 
three times his (lake; but his ardour abating, inftead of 
J'cpt et le va, by bending another corner, he bends his card 
in the middle to fave his ltake, if the next event fhould 
be againft him. There are double and treble paix-parolis, 
&rc. On winning a paix-paroli, a punter receives fix times 
his (lake, that is, double what he had won before. A 
double paix-paroli twelve times his (lake, &c. A paix 
may be made after a fept et le va, quinze et le va, See.—Sept 
ct le va, pronounced Jetclvau, (even and it goes : meaning 
that the punter will not receive the paroli lie has won, 
but bends another corner of his card, in hopes of winning 
feven times his (lake. If the next event is againft him, 
he lofes the three times his (lake he was entitled to, and 
his own (lake. —Quinze ct le va, pronounced kaings elvau, is 
after a punter has won a fept, bending another corner, in 
hopes of winning fifteen times his (take. If the card on 
which he purfues it is dealt on the tailleur’s right hand, 
he lofes the feven times his (lake he had won and left in 
the bank, and his (take alfo : the banker by the event 
winning eight. If the card is dealt on the tailleur’s left 
hand, the ponte is entitled to receive the feven (lakes, and 
eight more, making fifteen.— Trente et le va, pronounced 
traunt elvau, is, after a punter lias won a quinze, and bends 
the fourth corner of his card, purfuing his fortune in hopes 
of winning fixteen times his (take more ; in the event he 
wins thirty-one times his (lake, or lofes the quinze in the 
bank, and his (lake.— Soixante ct le va, pronounced fwoijant- 
elvau, properly foixantc-trois et le va-, or going for fix ty- 
three times the coucke or enjeu ; the (ixth and highelt chance 
in tlie game. This is after a punter has won a trente et une, 
and purfuing the fickle goddefs with more ardour than 
prudence, in fpite of doublets, aims at fixty-three times 
his couche or ltake, by.bending the corner of another 
card, if he has parolied on one only before, all of which 
fort mud have been dealt to enable him to win a trente et 
une ; or he may purfue his Joixanle trois on the fame card 
in the next deal, by breaking the tide and bending it.— 
PH, French for fold or bend. To make a pli, is to bend 
a card in the middle, and let it up like the letter L, with 
the points and foot towards the tailleur. This is ufed 
when a ponte has loft half his (lake by a doublet, which, 
being half a guinea, is never changed ; or fuppofing the 
(lake larger, and the punter prefers having it determined 
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by the next event, whether he lofe all, or recover the 
half he had loft.— Doublet, is when the punter’s card is 
dealt twice in one coup, that is, on the dealei’s right and 
left hand : in this cafe the banker wins half the pome’s 
(lake. If the punter had made a paroli. it retires onlv, 
and he does not lofe his enjeu : if he had bent three cor¬ 
ners of his cai 1 for a quinze et le va, one corner only re¬ 
tires on the dealing doublets, and the punter tnuft go for 
his fept again. He need not pay half his (lake, but make 
a pli, and have it determined by the next event whether 
he (h j 11 lofe all or none. The profit of half the ponte’s 
(lake on doublets is an acknowledged profit of the banker, 
with hocly, the other allowed advantage of the banker. 
This is the laft card but one, and always dealt, of couri'e, 
on the right hand for the banker ; by which the pontes 
lofe all the money they happen to have flaked on a card 
of the fame fort or number of points, although the other 
card dealt on the left hand to complete the coup, be of 
the fame fort. The laft card being (hewn by the tailleurs 
to the punters before the pack is dealt, goes for nothing. 
The bottom card was called il faccio, or face, at balfettr ; 
and the banker claimed half of every (lake cn a card of 
the fort before he began to deal. The banker now claims 
the chance of hocly, if a ponte has a (lake on a card un¬ 
determined, when there are only eight cards undealt; that 
is, he will not permit the card to be drawn, as may be 
done earlier in rhe deal. The advantage of hocly is re- 
linquilhed by feme bankers, i. e. the laft coup neither 
wins nor lofes ; it is generally relinquilhed the laft deal,. 
Hocly is derived from hoc, French, for a Cure thing, a cer¬ 
tainty.— Une pour Pautre, pronounced ung poorloat, is when 
a punter has (hiked money on any two or more cards, or 
on one of the figures denoting feveral; and one of thefe 
cards is dealt on the right, and another on tjie left, in the 
lame coup : as one wins and the other lofes, it is declared 
to be une pour Pautre, or one for the other.— Oppofe, or 
oppolite game, is having the events,againft the ponte de¬ 
termined by the cards dealt on the left hand, and winning 
by thofe dealt on the right. To avoid the frequent uif- 
putes between the punters and croups about which card 
the oppofe game was played on, and which not, cards were 
made with the word oppose' in Roman capitals on the 
face of them ; livrets compofed of which the punters were 
furnilhed with. A player may punt oppofe by placing his 
card horizontally, or with its (ide, not the end towards 
him. But as it occafions confufion and frequent mifun- 
derftanding and altercation, for fome to play one game 
and others oppofe, it is moftly difufed. 
The faro-bank is ufually eftablifhed by one, two, or 
^more perfons, who depofit from five hundred to a thou- 
fand guineas, agreeing to bank again in cafe that fum 
fhonld unfortunately be loft. Players are not permitted 
to punt lefs than half-guineas, fometimes not lei's than 
guineas, and are generally reftrained to ten guineas: a punt, 
er fucceeding in a foixante et le va on fuch a ltake, would 
receive fix hundred and thirty guineas, at one event or chance 
of the game. Two or three neceflitous but honourable gen¬ 
tlemen, (unlefs the partners, who are not always known, 
undertake the office themfelves,) are often employed to 
officiate alternately, one as cap to the bank, as the term 
is, or apparent punter, to encourage rilitors to play ; the 
others as decoys, procureurs, or rooks in pigeons feathers, to 
introduce their wealthy friends and acquaintance to a good 
thing-, to lay wait for the inexperienced rich gay pigeons 
of the day, in order to introduce them to the high advan¬ 
tages of the faro-table. And, however it may furprife, 
it is a fadt, that many ladies and gentlemen wiio make a 
fplendid appearance in London, are tempted with a (hare 
of the profits to follow this treacherous and didionour- 
able bulinefs. 
Mode of Play. —The partners, or perfons they em¬ 
ploy for the purpofe, officiate as dealer and croup. A 
large oval table is piovided, which i.s covered with gretn 
cloth, and has a line deferibed with white, yellow, or 
red. 
