*p1668 05 18 bridges The Mulberry Garden. Edition of 1668: Prologue-; Epilogue-.*c1668 05 18 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: It being almost twelve o'clock, or a little more, and carried [$Mercer=, $Mrs Horsfield=, and $Mrs Gayet=] to the King's playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of $Sir Charles Sidly='s new play, so long expected, <i>The Mulberry Garden</i>, of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great matters. I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out, getting a boy to keep my place...And so to the play again, where $the King= and $Queen=, by and by, come, and all the $Court=; and the house infinitely full. But the play, when it come, though there was, here and there, a pretty saying, and that not very many neither, yet the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company; insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I think. And which made it the worse was, that there never was worse musick played--that is, worse things composed, which made me and $Captain Rolt=, who happened to sit near me, mad. So away thence, very little satisfied with the play, but pleased with my company. [For $Bannister='s setting a song for $Mrs Knepp= for this play, see 7 May 1668.]