This month ends with two great secrets under
dispute but yet known to very few: first, Who the King will
marry; and What the meaning of this fleet is which we are now
sheathing to set out for the southward. Most think against
Algier against the Turke, or to the East Indys against the Dutch
who, we hear, are setting out a great fleet thither.
MARCH 1, 1660-61. After dinner Mr. Shepley and I in private
talking about my Lord's intentions to go speedily into the
country, but to what end we know not. We fear he is to go to
sea, with his fleet now preparing. But we wish that he could
get his 4000l. per annum settled before he do go. To White-
fryars, and saw "The Bondman" acted; [By Massinger.] an
excellent play and well done. But above all that ever I saw,
Beterton do the Bondman the best.
2nd. After dinner I went to the theatre, where I found so few
people (which is strange, and the reason I do not know) that I
went out again, and so to Salsbury Court, where the house as full
as could be; and it seems it was a new play, "The Queen's Maske,"
["Love's Mistress, or The Queen's Masque," by T Heywood.
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