"The Indian Emperour;"
wherein they told me these things most remarkable: That not any
woman but the Duchesse of Monmouth and Mrs. Cornwallis did any
thing but like fools and stocks, but that these two did do most
extraordinary well: that not any man did any thing well but
Captain Olrigran, [SIC. ORIG.] who spoke and did well, but above
all things did dance most incomparably. That she did sit near
the players of the Duke's house; among the rest Miss Davis, who
is the most impertinent slut, she says, in the world; and the
more, now the King do show her countenance; and is reckoned his
mistress, even to the scorne of the whole world; the King gazing
on her, and my Lady Castlemaine being melancholy and out of
humour, all the play not smiling once. The King, it seems, hath
given her a ring of 700l. which she shows to every body, and owns
that the King did give it her; and he hath furnished a house in
Suffolke-street most richly for her; which is a most infinite
shame. It seems she is a bastard of Colonell Howard, my Lord
Berkshire, and that he hath got her for the King: but Pierce
says that she is a most homely jade as ever she saw, though she
dances beyond any thing in the world.
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