ngo_; 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."

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," i