*p1667 02 05 bridges The Chances. Don John-Hart?; First Constantia-Rebecca Marshall?.*c1667 02 05 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. $Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 16) refers to $Hart='s acting <i>Don John</i>r. $Wilson= (<i>All the King's Ladies</i>, p. 170) lists $Rebecca Marshall= as possibly play1ng <i>First Constantia</i>r. <i>The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher</i> (1711), p. ix: Mr Hart played the Part of Don John to the highest Satisfaction of the Audience, the Play had a great run, and ever since has been follow'd as one of the best Entertainments of the Stage. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: And took them [$Mrs Pepys= and $Betty Michell=] against my vowes, but I will make good my forfeit, to the King's house, to show them a play, <i>The Chances</i>. A good play I find it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear $Knipp= sing in the play very properly, <i>All night I weepe</i>; and sung it admirably. The whole play pleases me well; and most of all, the sight of many fine ladies--among others, my $Lady Castlemayne= and $Mrs Middleton=.