*p1662 10 02 atcourt The Cardinal.*c1662 10 02 atcourt $Boswell=, (<i>Restoration Court Stage</i>, p. 280) lists this as by the <i>King's Company</i>, which had given it on 23 July 1662. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: Hearing that there was a play at the <i>Cockpit</i> (and my $Lord Sandwich=, who came to town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by very great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into one of the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the $King= or $Queene=, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed. Here we saw <i>The Cardinall</i>, a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is there any great matter in it. The company that came in with me into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no <i>English</i>, but Lord! what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that understood both <i>French</i> and English to make her tell them what the actors said.