*p1664 08 02 bridges Bartholomew Fair.*c1664 08 02 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: Thence to the King's play-house, and there saw <i>Bartholomew Fayre</i>, which do still please me; and is, as it is acted, the best comedy in the world, I believe. I chanced to sit by $Tom Killigrew=, who tells me that he is setting up a Nursery; that is, is going to build a house in <i>Moorefields</i>, wherein he will have common plays acted. But four operas it shall have in the year, to act six weeks at a time; where we shall have the best scenes and machines, the best musique, and every thing as magnificent as is in Christendome; and to that end hath sent for voices and painters and other persons from <i>Italy</i>.