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manner sewer. Domingo was at his last carde in- 
cownterd flush, as the standers by saw, and tolde the 
day after ; but seeing the king so mery, would not for 
a reste at primero, put him owt of that pleasawnt 
conceyt, and put up his cardes quietly, yielding it 
lost.” 
Park was not acquainted with any particulars 
of this Domingo Lomelyn, for he says, in a note, 
“Query, jester to the king ?” 
The first epigram in Samuel Rowland’s enter- 
taining tract, The Letting of Humours Blood in 
the Head-vaine, &c. 1600, is upon “ Monsieur 
Domingo ;” but whether it relates to King Henry’s 
jester is a matter of some question. 
Epwarp F. Rimpactt. 
MARLOWE AND THE OLD ‘‘ TAMING OF A SHREW.” 
Having only just observed an announcement of 
a new edition of the works of Marlowe, I take the 
earliest opportunity of calling the attention of the 
editor to a circumstance which it is important 
that he should know, and the knowledge of which, 
—should it have escaped his notice, as it has that 
of all other writers on the subject, —I trust may 
not be too late for his present purpose. Without 
farther preface, I will introduce the subject, by 
asking Mr. Dyce to compare two passages which 
I shall shortly point out ; and, having done so, I 
think he will agree with me in the opinion that 
the internal evidence, relating to our old dramatic 
literature, cannot have been very much studied, 
while such a discovery as he will then make still 
remained to be made. The first passage is from the 
so-called old “ Taming of a Shrew” (six old plays, 
1779, p. 161.), and runs as follows : — 
“ Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, 
Longing to view Orion’s drisling looks, 
Leaps from th’ Antarctic world unto the sky, 
And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath; ” 
the second is from Doctor Faustus (Marlowe's 
Works, vol. ii, p. 127.), which, however, I shall 
save myself the trouble of transcribing; as, with 
the exception of “look” for “ looks,” in the second 
line, and “his” for “her,” in the fourth, the two 
passages will be found identical. Being, some 
years ago, engaged, in connection with the first of 
these plays, in the pursuit of a very different 
object, — in which I cannot say that I altogether 
failed, and the result of which I may take an op- 
portunity of communicating, — I made a note of 
the above ; and at the same time followed it up by 
a general examination of the style of Marlowe. 
And, to make a long matter short, I may say that 
in this examination, besides meeting with a dozen 
instances of the identity of the writer of passages 
in the Taming of a Shrew and of passages in 
Marlowe’s two plays, Doctor Faustus and Tambur- 
laine, I found such general resemblance in style as 
left no doubt upon my mind that, if one of-these 
plays be his acknowledged work, as indisputable 
will be his claim to the other two. I was not 
aware at that time of the evidence, in Henslow’s 
Diary, of Marlowe’s authorship of Tamburlaine ; 
but, so.far from considering it inferior, I was in- 
clined to place it, in some important respects, at 
the very head of his plays. 
I will not take up your space now with the 
parallel passages which I noted; but, should you 
wish it, and be able to make room for them, I will 
furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious 
that the one I have quoted proves nothing by 
itself; accumulated instances, in connection with 
the general question of style, alone “become im- 
portant. I will conclude, by giving a list which I 
have made out of Marlowe's plays, in favour of 
which I conceive there to be either internal or 
external evidence : — 
* Locrine. 
Tamburlaine the Great (two parts). 
Jew of Malta. 
Doctor Faustus, 
Edward the Second. 
Massacre of Paris. 
Taming of a Shrew. 
Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Nash),” 
SaMuEL Hickson. 
St. John’s Wood, Jan. 12. 1850. 
{ We trust our correspondent will favour us with the 
further communications he proposes on this very in- 
teresting point. ] : 
BEETLE MYTHOLOGY. 
Mr. Editor, —I never thought of asking my 
Low-Norman -fellow-rustics whether the lady- 
bird had a name and a legend in the best pre- 
served of the northern Romance dialects: on the 
score of a long absence (eight-and-twenty years), 
might not a veteran wanderer plead forgiveness ? 
Depend upon it, Sir, nevertheless, that should 
any reminiscences exist among my chosen friends, 
the stout-hearted and industrious tenants of a soil 
where every croft and paddock is the leaf of a 
chronicle, it will be communicated without delay. 
There is more than usual attractiveness in the as- 
tronomical German titles of this tiny “ red chafer,” 
or rother khaefer, SONNEN KAEFER and VNSER 
FRAWEN KVHLEIN, the Sun-chafer, and our Lady’s 
little cow. (Isis or Lo ?) 
With regard to its provincial English name, 
Barnabee, the correct interpretation might be 
found in Barn-bie, the burning, or fire-fly, a com- 
pound word of Low-Dutch origin. ; 
We have a small black beetle, common enough 
in summer, called PAN, nearly hemispherical: you 
must recollect that the @ is as broad as you can 
afford to make it, and the final x nasal. Children 
never forgot, whenever they caught this beetle, to 
