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