28 September 1664

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Theatre: The (first) Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1664-1665
Volume: 1
Comments: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By coach to White Hall, thinking to have met at a Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there but my Lord Rutherford, he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of The Generall, my Lord Orrery's (Broghill) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his Harry the 5th is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to Sir W. Pen and Mr Creed; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like

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    *p?bridges The Generall. [See 14 Sept. 1664.% *c?bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: By coach to <i>White Hall</i>, thinking to have met at a Committee of <i>Tangier</i>, but nobody being there but my $Lord Rutherford=, he would needs carry me and another <i>Scotch Lord</i> to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of <i>The Generall</i>, my $Lord Orrery='s ($Broghill=) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his <i>Harry the 5th</i> is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to $Sir W. Pen= and $Mr Creed=; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like.
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    *p1664 09 28 bridges The Generall. ^See16640914^.*c1664 09 28 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: By coach to <i>White Hall</i>, thinking to have met at a Committee of <i>Tangier</i>, but nobody being there but my $Lord Rutherford=, he would needs carry me and another <i>Scotch Lord</i> to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of <i>The Generall</i>, my $Lord Orrery='s ($Broghill=) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his <i>Harry the 5th</i> is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to $Sir W. Pen= and $Mr Creed=; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like.
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    Event: 422 | 16640928 | bridges | The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: By coach to <i>White Hall</i>, thinking to have met at a Committee of <i>Tangier</i>, but nobody being there but my $Lord Rutherford=, he would needs carry me and another <i>Scotch Lord</i> to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of <i>The Generall</i>, my $Lord Orrery='s ($Broghill=) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his <i>Harry the 5th</i> is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to $Sir W. Pen= and $Mr Creed=; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like
    Performance: 422 | 422 | p | The Generall | See16640914.

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