" But I like no play here so well as at the common
playhouse; besides that, my eyes being very ill since last Sunday
and this day se'nnight, I was in mighty pain to defend myself now
from the light of the candles. after the play done, we met with
W. Batelier and W. Hewer and Talbot Pepys, [Of Impington, Ob.
1681, aet. suae 35.] and they followed us in a hackney-coach:
and we all stopped at Hercules' Pillars; and there I did give
them the best supper I could, and pretty merry; and so home
between eleven and twelve at night.
23rd. To Westminster Abbey, and there did see all the tombs very
finely, having one with us alone (there being other company this
day to see the tombs, it being Shrove-Tuesday:) and here we did
see, by particular favour, the body of Queen Katherine of Valois;
and I had the upper part of her body in my hands, and I did kiss
her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a queene, and that
this was my birth-day, thirty-six years old, that I did kiss a
queene. But here this man, who seems to understand well, tells
me that the saying is not true that she was never buried, for she
was buried; only when Henry the Seventh built his chapel, she was
taken up and laid in this wooden coffin; but I did there see that
in it the body was buried in a leaden one, which remains under
the body to this day.
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