This
evening going to the Queene's side to see the ladies, I did find
the Queene, the Duchesse of York, and another or two, at cards,
with the room full of great ladies and men; which I was amazed at
to see on a Sunday, having not believed it, but contrarily,
flatly denied the same a little while since to my cosen Roger
Pepys.
18th. To the King's house to "The Mayd's Tragedy;" but vexed all
the while with two talking ladies and Sir Charles Sedley; yet
pleased to hear their discourse, he being a stranger. And one of
the ladies would and did sit with her mask on all the play; and
being exceedingly witty as ever I heard woman, did talk most
pleasantly with him; but was, I believe, a virtuous woman, and of
quality. He would fain know who she was, but she would not tell;
yet did give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him, by
that means setting his brains at work to find out who she was,
and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was,
but pulling off her mask. He was mighty witty, and she also
making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant
rencontre I never heard.
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