*p1767 05 28 dl Hamlet. ^As17661107^.*a1767 05 28 dl The Musical Lady. ^As17661229^.*c1767 05 28 dl Doors to open at half past Four. Play to begin at half past Six. Send servants to hold places by Four o'clock. [$Mrs Vincent='s deficit of 1st instant received #20 3s. 6d.] Paid scavenger's rate for <i>St Martin's</i> due Lady Day #5 1s. Paid printer's bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Went to <i>Drury Lane</i>, but could not get in. Stayed from half past 4, sometime at one Pit door, sometime at the other, till past 6, and got in at the right hand side just as the play began, and was dreadfully squeezed, but rewarded by seeing $Garrick= play <i>Hamlet</i>r. The expression in his features, his eyes particularly, surpasses anything I ever saw. He is a little man, but handsome and full of that fire which marks the stronger, and of the softness natural to the tender passions. It is impossible to see his greatest excellencies from ye Gallery. $Baddeley= and $Dodd= are pretty well in <i>Polonius</i>r and <i>Ostrick</i>r. $Mrs Baddeley= and $Yates= do <i>Ophelia</i>r and ye <i>Grave Digger</i>r very well. $Mrs Pritchard= is great, as usual in <i>ye Queen</i>r. <i>Gravedigger's man-$Castle</i>. <i>Horatio-$Mr Packer</i>. Several parts of ye play, as it is in $Shakespeare=, are omitted rather improperly...The $Prince Brunswick, his wife and Louisa= were present (<i>Neville MS Diary</i>).