*p1662 03 01 lif Romeo and Juliet. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 22): Romeo-Harris; Mercutio-Betterton; Paris-Price; Fryar-Richards; Sampson-Sandford; Gregory-Underhill; Juliet-Mrs Saunderson; Count Paris' Wife-Mrs Holden. $Spencer= (<i>Shakespeare Improved</i>, p. 73) thinks that $James Nokes= acted the <i>Nurse</i>r.*c1662 03 01 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the Opera, and there saw <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do, and I am resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less. $Downes= (p. 22): Note, There being a Fight and Scuffle in this Play, between the House of Capulet, and House of Paris; $Mrs Holden= Acting his Wife, enter'd in a Hurry, Crying, O my Dear Count! She Inadvertently left out, O, in the pronuntiation of the Word Count! giving it a Vehement Accent, put the House into such a Laughter, that London Bridge at low-water was silence to it. This Tragedy of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, was made some time after into a Tragi-comedy, by $Mr James Howard=, he preserving <i>Romeo</i>r and <i>Juliet</i>r alive; so that when the Tragedy was Reviv'd again, twas Play'd Alternately, Tragical one Day, and Tragicomical another; for several Days together. [No specific notices are known which would indicate when Howard's version appeared.]