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Pleurs

from The Grand Etteilla, printed c. 1875-1899, to Etteilla's design of 1788

Ten blue swords fill the panel points down. Upright Pleurs, tears; reversed Avantage. Etteilla made the ten of swords grief itself; Smith later drew it as a body under ten blades, and the reversal's small mercy survives in modern readings too.

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