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…