Coeval with gleek we find MOUNT SAINT, or more properly Cent, in Spanish Cientos, or hundred, the number of points that win the game.
GLEEK is mentioned with primero in Green's Tu quoque, where one of the characters proposes to play at twelve-penny gleek, but the other insists upon making it for a crown at least.
NEEKS: I see Mr. Gleek sitting over there, Sir Webley.
The Four of Clubs is nicknamed "the Devil's bed-posts," and in the old game of Gleek all the Fours were named Tiddy.
Gleek is described in Cotton's "Complete Gamester," where it is called "a noble and delightful game or recreation.
Euchre resembles Gleek or Glueck, a game well known in Germany, so the tradition of the farmer's daughter, although ingenious, is probably without foundation.
In the game of Gleek the Fives were called Towser, and the Sixes Tumbler, and these were lucky cards, as they counted double when they were turned up as Trumps.
Was it ever heard there was a game at gleek at the ordinary before, without counting tiddy?
See further illustrations of the word Gleekin Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic Words.
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