Event Comment: The King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: 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
Brenoralt, which I do find but little in, for my part. Here was many fine ladies--among o
thers,
the German Baron, with his lady, who is envoye from
the Emperour, and
their fine daughter, which hath travelled all
Europe 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 Italian manner, but yet do not please me like one of
Mrs Knepp's songs, to a good
English tune,
the manner
their ayre not pleasing me so well as
the fashion of our own, nor so natural