*p1667 12 30 bridges Love's Cruelty.*c1667 12 30 bridges The <i>King's Company</i>. <i>Pepys, Diary</i>: With $Sir Philip Carteret= to the King's playhouse, there to see <i>Love's Cruelty</i>, an old play, but which I have not seen before and in the first act $Orange Moll= come to me, with one of the porters by my house, to tell me that $Mrs Pierce= and Knepp did dine at my house to-day, and that I was desired to come home. So I went out presently, and by coach home, and they were just gone away; so, after a very little stay with my wife, I took coach again, and to the King's playhouse again, and come in the fourth act; and it proves to me a very silly play, and to everybody else, as far as I could judge. But the jest is, that here telling Moll how I had lost my journey, she told me that $Mrs Knepp= was in the house, and so shews me to her, and I went to her, and sat out the play.... I could not but observe that Sir Philip Carteret would fain have given me my going into a play; but yet, when he come to the door, he had no money to pay for himself, I having refused to accept of it for myself, but was fain; and I perceive he is known there, and do run upon the score for plays, which is a shame.... In the pit I met with $Sir Ch. North=.