*p1663 05 08 bridges The Humorous Lieutenant. ^As16630507^, but Lieutenant-Lacy.*c1663 05 08 bridges <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And there took up my wife and $Ashwell= to the <i>Theatre Royall</i>, being the second day of its being opened. The house is made with extraordinary good contrivance, and yet hath some faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and out of the pitt, and the distance from the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear; but for all other things it is well, only, above all, the musique being below, and most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing of the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be mended. The play was <i>The Humerous Lieutenant</i>, a play that hath little good in it, nor much in the very part which, by $the King='s command, $Lacy= now acts instead of $Clun=. In the dance, the tall devil's actions was very pretty....I am resolved to deny myself the liberty of two plays <i>at court</i>, which are in arreare to me for the months of March and April, which will more than countervail this excess, so that this month of May is the first that I must claim a liberty of going to a Court play according to my oath.