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 de
sired 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