*p1668 03 26 lif The Man's the Master. Edition of 1669: Prologue-; Epilogue in a Ballad-Two; [$Downes= (<i>Roscius Anglicanus</i>, p. 30): Master-Harris; The Man-Underhill; Singing the Epilogue [like two <i>Street Ballad-Singers</i>r-Mr Harris, Mr Sandford. [According to the <i>Catalogue of the MS Music, Christ Church</i>, $John Bannister= set a song for this play.]*c1668 03 26 lif The <i>Duke's Company</i>. $Downes= (p. 30): This Comedy in general was very well Perform'd. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: I alone to the Duke of York's house, to see the new play, called <i>The Man is the Master</i>, where the house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife and $Deb=. being there before, with $Mrs Pierce= and $Corbet= and $Betty Turner=, whom my Wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it costing me 8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. apiece. By and by $the King= come; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the play. The play is a translation out of <i>French</i>, and the plot <i>Spanish</i>, but not anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by $Sir W. Davenant=, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though there was here and there something Pretty: but the most of the mirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the <i>prologue</i> but poor, and the <i>epilogue</i> little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by $Harris= and another in the form of a ballet.