Hewer; but,
however, the world did by the beginning see what it meant, and it
will, I believe, come to high terms between us; which I am sorry
for, to have any blemish laid upon me or mine at this time,
though never so unjustly, for fear of giving occasion to my real
discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest of the
morning vexed, but so went home to dinner; where my wife tells me
of my Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," [A tragedy, taken from
the first book of Maccabees, and performed with great success.]
at the Duke of York's house, which, however, I would see, and
therefore put a bit of meat in our mouths and went thither;
where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole
in the 18d. place above stairs, where we could not hear well.
The house infinite fill, but the prologue most silly, and the
play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because
just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as
every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held
admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but
dull one another; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every
body else as well as myself, who therefore showed but little
pleasure in it.
Pages:
1572
1573
1574
1575
1576
1577
1578
1579
1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596