Pepys’ Diary.
September 11th, 1661. Took Mr Moore home to my house to dinner, where I found my wife’s brother, Baity, as fine as hands could make him, and his servant, a Frenchman, to wait on him, and come to have my wife to visit a young lady which he is a servant to, ana have hope to trepan and get for his wife. I did give way for my wife to go with him, and so after dinner they went, and Dr Moore and I out again, he about his business and I to Dr Williams to talk with him again; and he and I walking through Lincoln’s Inn Fields observed at the Opera “ Twelfth Night,” was acted there, and the King there; so I, against my own mind and resolution, could not forbear to go in, which did make the play seem a burthen to me, and I took no pleasure at all in it: and so after it was done went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, after my swearing to my wife that I would never go to a play without her. September 25th, 1661. Much against my nature and will, yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the Theatre, and saw “ The Merry Wives of Windsor,” iT done.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 8
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