Diary, January 1667/68
Diary, January 1667/68
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themselves. They did talk much of the disgrace the
Archbishop is fallen under with the King, and the rest of the Bishops
also. Thence I after dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there
saw "Sir Martin Mar-all;" which I have seen so often, and yet am
mightily pleased with it, and think it mighty witty, and the fullest of
proper matter for mirth that ever was writ; and I do clearly see that
they do improve in their acting of it. Here a mighty company of
citizens, 'prentices, and others; and it makes me observe, that when I
begun first to be able to bestow a play on myself, I do not remember that
I saw so many by half of the ordinary 'prentices and mean people in the
pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now; I going for several years no higher than
the 12d. and then the 18d. places, though, I strained hard to go in then
when I did: so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be
observed in this particular. Thence I to White Hall, and there walked up
and down the house a while, and do hear nothing of any
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