*p1667 08 12 bridges Brenoralt; or, The Discontented Colonel.*c1667 08 12 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: All alone to the King's playhouse, and there did happen to sit just before $Mrs Pierce=, $Mrs Knepp=, who pulled me by the hair; and so I addressed myself to them, and talked to them all the intervals of the play, and did give them fruit. The play is <i>Brenoralt</i>, which I do find but little in, for my part. Here was many fine ladies--among others, the <i>German Baron</i>, with his lady, who is envoye from the Emperour, and their fine daughter, which hath travelled all <i>Europe</i> over with them, it seems; and is accordingly accomplished, and indeed, is a wonderful pretty woman. Here $Sir Philip Frowde=, who sat next to me, did tell me how $Sir H. Belasses= is dead, and that the quarrel between him and $Tom Porter=, who is fled, did arise in the ridiculous fashion that I was first told it, which is a strange thing between two so good friends. The play being done, I took the women, and $Mrs Corbett=, who was with them, by coach, it raining, to $Mrs Manuel='s, the Jew's wife, formerly a player, who we heard sing with one of the $Italians= that was there; and, indeed, she sings mightily well, and just after the <i>Italian manner</i>, but yet do not please me like one of $Mrs Knepp='s songs, to a good <i>English tune</i>, the manner their ayre not pleasing me so well as the fashion of our own, nor so natural.