The Diary
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Chapter_848

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2nd. Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I walked to the Spittle an hour or two before my Lord Mayor and the bluecoat boys come, which at last they did, and a fine sight of charity it is indeed. We got places and stayed to hear a sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long, that after above an hour of it we went away, and I home and dined; and then my wife and I by water to the Opera, and there saw The Bondman most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than today, Ianthe acting Cleora’s part very well now Roxalana is gone. We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, we having been three days together. Met Mr. Sanchy, Smithes, Gale, and Edlin at the play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them there. And so home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to bed.