Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: [After loo
king 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 c
andle-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