*p1668 04 07 bridges The English Monsieur.*c1668 04 07 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: To the King's playhouse, and there saw <i>The English Monsieur</i>; sitting for privacy sake in an upper box: the play hath much mirth in it as to that particular humour. After the play done, I down to $Knipp=, and did stay her undressing herself; and there saw the several players, men and women go by; and pretty to see how strange they are all, one to another, after the play is done. Here I saw a wonderful pretty maid of her own, that come to undress her, and one so pretty that she says she intends not to keep her, for fear of her being undone in her service, by coming to the playhouse. Here I hear $Sir W. Davenant= is just now dead; and so who will succeed him in the mastership of the house is not yet known. The $eldest Davenport= is, it seems, gone from this house to be kept by somebody; which I am glad of, she being a very bad actor.... [$Mrs Knepp=] tells me mighty news, that my $Lady Castlemayne= is mightily in love with $Hart= of their house; and he is much with her in private, and she goes to him, and do give him many Presents; and that the thing is most certain, and $Becke Marshall= only privy to it, and the means of bringing them together, which is a very odd thing; and by this means she is even with $the King='s love to $Mrs Davis=.