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But for ought I see they are gone out very peaceably,
and the people not so much concerned therein as was expected.
OCTOBER 2, 1662. At night hearing that there was a play at the
Cockpit, (and my Lord Sandwich, who come to town last night, at
it,) I do go thither, and by very great fortune did follow four
or five gentlemen who were carried to a little private door in a
wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into one of
the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the King or
Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are not really so
handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they
are finely dressed. Then we saw "The Cardinall," [A tragi-comedy
by James Shirley.] a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is
there any great matter in it. The company that come in with me
into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but
Lord! what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got
among them that understood both French and English to make her
tell them what the actors said.
5th.


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