Event Comment: The
United Company. This performance is on the
L. C. list, 5@149, p. 368: The
Queene a Box, and a Box for the Maids of Honor at the
Spanish Fryer. See also
Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 352. A warrant, dated 8 June 1689, L. C. 5@149, p. 154 (see Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356), calls for a payment of #25 to
Mrs Barry and presumably represents payment for this performance.
Daniel Finch, ca. June 1689: The only day
Her Majesty gave herself the diversion of a play, and that on which she designed to see another, has furnished the town with discourse for a month. The choice of the play was the Spanish Fryar, the only play forbid by the late
K@@. Some unhappy expressions, among which those that follow, put her in some disorder, and forc'd her to hold up her fan, and often look behind her and call for her palatine and hood, and any thing she could next think of, while those who were said. (
Sir John Dalrymple,
Memoirs of Great Britain [London, 1771-88], in the pit before her, whenever their fancy led them to make any application of what was Volume II, Appendix, Part II, pp. 78-80.)
Henry Purcell's new setting for
whilst I with grief did on you look may have been made by this date. It is in
Deliciae Musicae, 1695