It was a strange
sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me mightily. Thence to
the Duke's playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King and Court
there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemaine, and
close to a woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose
gossip, that pretends to be like her, and is so something. And
my wife, by my troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as any of
them; I never thought so much before; and so did Talbot and W,
Hewer, as they said, I heard, to one another. The King and Duke
of York minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near
me: but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the box over the
King's and my Lady Castlemaine, look down upon the King, and he
up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemaine once, to see who it
was; but when she saw Moll Davis, she looked like fire; which
troubled me.
23rd. Discoursed with Sir John Bankes; who thinks this
prorogation will please all but the Parliament itself, which
will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet governs
all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he
believes, will get the upper hand in a little time, for the King
must trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be
forced to it.
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