*p1666 12 07 bridges The Maid's Tragedy. $Pepys=: Evadne?-Rebecca Marshall; [$Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 5): King-Wintersel; Melantius-Mohun; Amintor-Hart; Calianas-Shatterel; Aspatia-Mrs Boutel? [but she probably did not come on the stage until 1670]. [See also 17 Nov. 1660.*c1666 12 07 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost done when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw the remainder of <i>The Mayd's Tragedy</i>; a good play, and well acted, especially by $the younger Marshall=, who is become a pretty good actor, and is the first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the great plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I was in Mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play. <i>Elegy on that Worthy and Famous Actor, Mr Charles Hart</i>, who departed this Life Thursday August the 18th., 1683: @Such Pow'r He had o'r the Spectators gain'd,@As forc'd a Real passion from a Feign'd.@For when they saw Amintor bleed, straight all@The House, for every Drop, a Tear let fall;@And when Arbaces wept by sympathy,@A glowing Tide of Wo gush'd from each Eye.@ [Reprinted in $Thorn-Drury=, <i>A Little Ark</i>, pp. 47ff; $Sprague=, $Beaumont= and $Fletcher=, p.38.]