Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: [After looking in at
lif], and so to the King's house: and there, going in, met with
Knepp, and she took us up
into the tireing-rooms: and to the women's shift, where
Nell was dressing herself, and was all unready, and is very Pretty, prettier than I thought. And so walked all up and down the house above, and then below
into the scene-room, and there sat down, and she gave us fruit: and here I read the questions to Knepp, while she answered me, through all her part of
Flora's Figary's which was acted to-day. But, Lord! to
see how they were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them; and what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk! and how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what a shew they make on the stage by candle-light, is very observable. But to
see how Nell cursed, for having so few people in the
pit, was pretty; the other house carrying away all the people at the new play, and is said, now-a-days, to have generally most company, as being better players. By and by
into the
pit, and there was the play, which is pretty good