Diary of Samuel Pepys Esqr FRS Author:Samuel Pepys Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: please me ; and is, as it is acted, the best comedy in the world, I believe. I chanced to sit by Tom Killigrew, who tells me that he is setting up a nursery ; th... more »at is, is going to build a house in Moore- fields, wherein he will have common plays acted. But four operas it shall have in the year, to act six weeks at a time: where we shall have the best scenes and machines, the best musique, and every thing as magnificent as is in Christen- dome; and to that end hath sent for voices and painters and other persons from Italy. Thence homeward called upon my Lord Marlborough. 4th. To a play at the King's house, " The Rivall Ladys," x a very innocent and most pretty witty play. I was much pleased with it, and it being given me,2 I look upon it as no breach of my oath. Here we hear that Cluu, one of their best actors, was, the last night, going out of towne (after he had acted the Alchymist, wherein was one of his best parts that he acts) to his country-house, set upon and murdered; one of the rogues taken, anIrish fellow. It seems most cruelly butchered and bound. The house will have a great miss of him. Thence visited my Lady Sandwich, who tells me my Lord FitzHarding is to be made a Marquis. 1 A Tragedy by Dryden. ' His companion paid for him. 5th. About ten o'clock I dressed myself, and so mounted upon a very pretty mare, Vsent me by Sir W. Warren, according to his promise yesterday. And so through the City, not a little proud, God knows, to be seen upon so pretty a beast, and to my cozen W. Joyce's, who presently mounted too, and he and I out of towne toward Highgate; in the way, at Kentish- towne, he showing me the place and manner of Clun's being killed and laid in a ditch, and yet was not killed by any wounds, having only one in his arm, but bled to death through his s...« less