NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 13.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Domingo Lomelyn, Jester to Henry VIII., By Edward F. Rimbault Marlowe and the Old Taming of a Shrew Beetle Mythology Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster, by Rev. M. Walcott Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault Old Painted Glass Aelfric's Colloquy, by S.W. Singer Logographic Printing Memorial of Duke of Monmouth's Last Days QUERIES:-- Catherine Pegge, by Lord Braybrooke William Basse and his Poems, by J.P. Collier 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 Phoenix--Agricola--Liturgy Version of Psalms MISCELLANIES--including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:-- Sir W. Rider--Sonnet--Pilgrimage of Princes, &c.--Seal of Killigrew--Lacedaemonian Black Broth--Epigram--Bigotry--Gowghe's Dore of Holy Scripture--Reinerius Saccho--Discurs Modest--Defoe--Etymology of Muffins--By Hook or by Crook--El Buscapié, &c. MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * 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 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 pronounciation in 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?