shove-groat

“Michael won us eighteen pence at shove-groat in the Bear, but now no one will play with him.”

Simon & Schuster: Wicked Will

“Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling: nay, an a’ do nothing but speak nothing, a’ shall be nothing here.”

Act II. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

“They were all three fairly full; that into which they entered, the first in the row, was occupied by some gentlemen-pensioners and ladies talking and laughing; some playing shove-groat, and some of them still applauding the song that had just ended.”

By What Authority?

“Shakespeare uses the expression "shove-groat shilling," as does Ben Jonson.”

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1662

“He had so writhen himself into the habit of one of your poor infantry, your decayed; ruinous, worm-eaten gentlemen of the round; such as have vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half-dozen of halberdiers do what they can; and have translated begging out of the old hackney-pace to a fine easy amble, and made it run as smooth off the tongue as a shove-groat shilling.”

Every Man in His Humor

“Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling: nay, an a 'do nothing but speak nothing,”

The Second Part of King Henry IV

“Why wast making sheep’s eyes at Mistress Salterne here, while my pretty little chuck of Burrough there was playing at shove-groat with Spanish doubloons?””

Westward Ho!

“Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling: nay, an a’ do nothing but speak nothing,”

The second part of King Henry the Fourth

“Salterne here, while my pretty little chuck of Burrough there was playing at shove-groat with Spanish doubloons? ”

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth