[This word is
here used as an optical term, and signifies the image painted on
the retina of the eye, and the rays of light reflected from the
several points of the surface of objects.] Afterwards to nine-
pins, Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke.
28th. By water to the Royal Theatre; but that was so full they
told us we could have no room. And so to the Duke's house; and
there saw "Hamlett" done, giving us fresh reason never to think
enough of Betterton. Who should we see come upon the stage but
Gosnell, my wife's maid? but neither spoke, danced, nor sung;
which I was sorry for.
29th. This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's
Coronation. Creed and I abroad, and called at several churches;
and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill temper of
the City, at this time, either to religion in general, or to the
King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people, and
those poor people. To the Duke's house, and there saw "The
Slighted Mayde," [A comedy, by Sir Robert Stapylton.] wherein
Gosnell acted AEromena, a great part, and did it very well.
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