So that I perceive this remissness in affairs do
continue in my Lord's managements still: which I am sorry for;
but, above all, to see in what a condition my Lord is for money,
that I dare swear he do not know where to take up 500l. of any
man in England at this time upon his word but or myself, as I
believe by the sequel hereof it will appear. Here I first saw
and saluted my Lady Burlington, [Elizabeth, sole daughter and
heir to Henry Earl of Cumberland, wife of Richard first Earl of
Burlington.] a very fine-speaking lady, and a good woman, but
old and not handsome; but a brave woman. Here I also, standing
by a candle that was brought for sealing a letter, do set my
periwigg a-fire; which made such an odd noise nobody could tell
what it was till they saw the flame, my back being to the candle.
To the King's playhouse, and there saw "The City Match," [A
comedy, by Jasper Mayne, D.D.] not acted these thirty years, and
but a silly play: the King and Court there; the house for the
women's sake mighty full. So I to White Hall, and there all the
evening on the Queene's side; and it being a most summer-like
day, and a fine warm evening, the Italians came in a barge under
the leads before the Queene's drawing-room; and so the Queene and
ladies went out and heard them for almost an hour: and the
singing was indeed very good together; but yet there was but one
voice that alone did appear considerable, and that was Signior
Joanni.
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