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;