per chaldron,
the weather too being become most bitter cold, the King saying
to-day that it was the coldest day he ever knew in England.
Thence by coach to my Lord Crewe's, where very welcome. Here I
find they are in doubt where the Duke of Buckingham is; which
makes me mightily reflect on the uncertainty of all history, when
in a business of this moment, and of this day's growth, we cannot
tell the truth.
7th. To Devonshire House, to a burial of a kinsman of Sir R.
Viner's; and there I received a ring. To the Duke's playhouse,
and saw "The English Princesse, or Richard the Third;" [A
tragedy, by J. Caryl.] a most sad, melancholy play, and pretty
good, but nothing eminent in it, as some tragedys are; only
little Miss Davis did dance a jigg after the end of the play, and
there telling the next day's play, so that it come in by force
only to please the company to see her dance in boy's clothes; and
the truth is, there is no comparison between Nell's dancing the
other day at the King's house in boy's clothes and this, this
being infinitely beyond the other.
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