Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 by Various
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"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? "--_Domyngo Lomelyn_, That was wont to wyn Moche money of the kynge, |
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