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26th. With my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The
Surprizall;" [A comedy, by Sir Robert Howard.] which did not
please me to-day, the actors not pleasing me; and especially
Nell's acting of a serious part, which she spoils. I hear this
day that Mrs. Stewart do at this day keep a great court at
Somerset House with her husband the Duke of Richmond, she being
visited for her beauty's sake by people as the Queene is at
nights; and they say also that she is likely to go to Court;
again, and there put my Lady Castlemaine's nose out of joynt.
27th. A Committee of Tangier met; the Duke of York there. And
there I did discourse over to them their condition as to money;
which they were all mightily as I could desire satisfied with,
but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards
against us in our supplies of money; which is an odd
consideration for a dull, heavy blockhead as he is, understanding
no more of either than a goose: but the ability and integrity of
Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, I do and must
admire.


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