Event Comment: The King's Company.
Pepys, Diary:
And wife
and Deb. to
the King's house,
there to see
The Wild-goose Chase, which I never saw, but have long longed to see it, being a famous play, but as it was yesterday I do find that where I expect most I find least satisfaction, for in this play I met with nothing extraordinary at all, but very dull inventions
and designs.
Knepp come
and sat by us,
and her talk pleased me a little, she telling me how
Mis Davis is for certain going away from
the Duke's house,
the King being in love with her;
and a house is taken for her,
and furnishing;
and she hath a ring given her already worth #600: that
the King did send several times for
Nelly,
and she was with him, but what he did she knows not; this was a good while ago,
and she says that
the King first spoiled
Mrs Weaver, which is very mean, methinks, in a prince,
and I am sorry for it,
and can hope for no good to
the State from having a Prince so devoted to his pleasure. She told me also of a play shortly coming upon
the stage, of
Sir Charles Sidly's, which, she thinks, will be called
The Wandering Ladys, a comedy that, she thinks, will be more pleasant;
and also ano
ther play, called
The Duke of Lerma; besides
Catelin, which she thinks, for want of
the clo
thes which
the King promised
them, will not be acted for a good while