Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: Thence called
Knepp from the King's house, where going in for her, the play being done, I did see
Beck Marshall come dressed, off of the stage,
and looks mighty fine,
and pretty,
and noble:
and also
Nell Gwyn?, in her boy's clothes, mighty pretty. But, Lord! their confidence!
and how many men do hover about them as soon as they come off the stage,
and how confident they are in their talk! Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly come, called
Pegg Hughes?, that was
Sir Charles Sidly's mistress, a mighty pretty woman,
and seems, but is not, modest. Here took up Knepp into our coach,
and all of us with her to her lodgings,
and thither comes
Bannister with a song of her's, that he hath set in Sir
Charles Sidly's play [
The Mulberry Garden] for her, which is, I think, but very meanly set; but this he did, before us, teach her,
and it being but a slight, silly, short ayre, she learnt it presently. But I did get him to prick me down the notes of
the Echo in
The Tempest, which pleases me mightily. Here was also
Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King's house,
and a seeming civil man,
and sings pretty well