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 lafter, supposing the game (as it was) in a manner
sewer. _Domingo_ was at his last carde incownterd 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 entertaining tract, _The Letting
of Humours Blood in the Head-waine_, &c. 1600, is upon "Monsieur
Domingo;" but whether it relates to King Henry's jester is a matter of
some question.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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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.
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