And indeed
the Bishops are so high, that very few do love them.
23rd. To the Red Bull (where I had not been since plays come up
again) up to the tireing room, where strange the confusion and
disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves,
especially here, where the clothes are very poore, and the actors
but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there
was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the
whole house. And the play, which is called "All's lost by Lust,"
[A Tragedy, by W.Rowley.] poorly done; and with so much
disorder, among others, in the musique-room the boy that was to
sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his
eares and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore.
Met my uncle Wight, and with him Lieut.-Col. Baron, who told us
how Crofton, the great Presbyterian minister that had preached
so highly against Bishops, is clapped up this day in the Tower.
Which do please some, and displease others exceedingly.
APRIL 2, 1661. To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York
playing at Pelemele, the first time that ever I saw the sport.
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