Coventry too, who told me that
the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-fair, very
dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington, which was
pretty to see: and how that idle thing do work upon people that
see it, and even myself too! And thence to Jacob Hall's dancing
on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and
mightily worth seeing; and here took acquaintance with a fellow
that carried me to a tavern, whither come the musick of this
booth, and by and by Jacob Hall himself, with whom I had a mind
to speak, to hear whether he had ever any mischief by falls in
his time. He told me, "Yes, many, but never to the breaking of a
limb." He seems a mighty strong man. So giving them a bottle or
two of wine, I away. So by water by link-light through the
bridge, it being mighty dark, but still weather; and so home.
This day came out first the new five-pieces in gold, coined by
the Guiny Company; and I did get two pieces of Mr. Holder.
22nd. This day Mr. Wren did give me at the Board Commissioner
Middleton's answer to the Duke of York's great letter; so that
now I have all of them.
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