Event Comment: The
King's Company.
Pepys, Diary: With
Sir Philip Carteret to the King's playhouse, there to see
Love's Cruelty, 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
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Love's Cruelty