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Notes:— Page Domingo Lomelyn, Jester to Henry VIII., by Edward F. Rimbault 193
Marlowe and the Old Taming of a Shrew 194
Beetle Mythology 194
Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster, by Rev. M. Walcott 195
Notes on Cunningham's London, by E. F. Rimbault 196
Old Painted Glass 197
Ælfric's Colloquy, by S. W. Singer 197
Logographic Printing 198
Memorial of Duke of Monmouth's Last Days 198
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Catherine Pegge, by Lord Braybrooke 200
William Basse and his Poems, by J. P. Collier 200
Minor Queries:—Christmas Hymn—Passage in Pope—Circulation of the Blood—Meaning of Pallace—Oliver Cromwell—Savegard and Russells—Pandoxare—Lord Bacon's Psalms—Festival of St. Michael, &c.—Luther and Erasmus—Lay of the Phœnix—Agricola—Liturgy Version of Psalms 201
Miscellanies—Including Answers to Minor Queries:—
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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 206
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 207
Notices to Correspondents 207
Advertisements 207
DOMINGO LOMELTN, JESTER TO HENRY VIII.
Shakespeare, in the Second Part of Henry IV. act v. sc. 3., makes Silence sing the following scrap:—
"Do me right,
And dub me knight:
Samingo."
And Nash, in his Summers Last Will and Testament, 1600 (reprinted in the last edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. xi. p. 47.), has
"Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass,
In cup, in can, or glass;
God Bacchus, do me right,
And dub me knight,
Domingo."
T. Warton, in a note in vol. xvii. of the Variorum Shakespeare, says, "Samingo, that is San Domingo, as some of the commentators have observed. But what is the meaning and propriety of the name here, has not yet been shown. Justice Silence is here introduced as in the midst of his cups; and I remember a black-letter ballad, in which either a San Domingo or a Signior Domingo, is celebrated for his miraculous feats in drinking. Silence, in the abundance of his festivity, touches upon some old song, in which this convivial saint, or signior, was the burden. Perhaps, too, the pronunciation is here suited to the character." I must own that I cannot see what San Domingo has to do with a drinking song. May it not be an allusion to a ballad or song on Domingo, one of King Henry the Eighth's jesters?
"
That was wont to wyn
Moche money of the kynge,
At the eardys and haserdynge."
Skelton's Why come ye not to Court?
ed. Dyee, ii. p. 63.
None of the commentators have noticed this, but I think my suggestion carries with it some weight.
In the Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Eighth (published by Sir H. Nicolas, in 1827), are many entries concerning this Domingo, most of which relate to payments of money that he had won from the king at cards and dice. He was evidently, as Sir Harris Nicolas observes, one of King Henry's "diverting vagabonds," and seems to have accompanied his majesty wherever he went, for we find that he was with him at Calais in 1532. In all these entries he is only mentioned as Domingo; his surname, and the fact of his being a Lombard, we learn from Skelton's poem, mentioned above.
The following story, told of Domingo, occurs in Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington's Treatise on Playe, 1597, printed in the Nugæ Antique, edit. Park, vol. i. p. 222.:—
"The other tale I wold tell of a willlnge and wise loss I have hearde dyversly tolde. Some tell it of Kyng Phillip and a favoryte of his; some of our worthy King Henry VIII. and Domingo; and I may call it a tale; becawse perhappes it is but a tale, but thus they tell it:—The kinge, 55 eldest hand, set up all restes, and discarded flush; Domingo, or Dundego (call him how you will), helde it upon 49, or som such game; when all restes were up and they had discarded, the kinge threw his 55 on the boord open, with great latter, supposing the game (as it was) in