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iosiinge Manietym. Jester-to' Beary VIUk; ty Edward 8° | San Domingo, or a Signior Domingo, is celebrated 
eee a tee) | ‘oar idee | for bis/iniraculous’ feats in drinking. 
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DOMINGO LOMELYN, 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 Summer's Last Will and Tes- 
tament, 1600 (reprinted in the last edition of 
Dodsley’s Old Plays, vol. xi. p. 47.), has 
“ Monsieur Mingo for quafling 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, 
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 
¥ 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 ? 
ce Domyngo. Lomelyn, 
That was wont to wyn 
Moche money of the kynge, 
At the cardys and haserdynge.” 
Skelton’s Why come ye not to Courte ? 
ed. Dyee, ik. 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. i 
The following story, told of Domingo, occurs in 
Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington’s Treatise 
on Playe, 1597, printed in the Nuge Antique, 
edit. Park, vol.i. p. 222. :— 
« The other tale I wold tell of a willinge 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 band, set up 
all restes, and discarded flush; Domingo, or Dundego 
as some of the commentators have observed. But | (call him how you will), helde it upon 49, or som 
what is the meaning and propriety of the name | such game; when all restes were up and they had dis- 
here, has not yet been shown. Justice Silence is 
carded, the kinge threw his 55 on the boord open, 
here introduced as in the midst of his cups; and I | with great lafter, supposing the game (as it was) in 4 
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