"--_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. Dyce, 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. Nichols, 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 Nichols 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 _Nugae Antiquae_, 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 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. * * * * * MARLOWE AND THE OLD "TAMING OF A SHREW."