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13th. Attended the Duke of York, with our usual business; who
upon occasion told us that he did expect this night or to-morrow
to hear from Bredah of the consummation of the peace.
15th. Sir W. Pen and I to the Duke's house; where a new play.
The King and Court there: the house full, and an act begun. And
so we went to the King's, and there saw "The Merry Wives of
Windsor;" which did not please me at all, in no part of it.
16th. My wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the
new play acted yesterday, "The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin
Marall;" a play made by my Lord Duke of Newcastle, but, as every
body says, corrected by Dryden. It is the most entire piece of
mirth, a complete farce from one end to the other, that certainly
was ever writ. I never laughed so in all my life, and at very
good wit therein, not fooling. The House full, and in all things
of mighty content to me. Every body wonders that we have no news
from Bredah of the ratification of the peace; and do suspect that
there is some stop in it.
17th.


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