...the new play, and is said nowadays to have generally most company, as being better players. By and by into the pit and there saw the play; which is pretty good. 14 The easy access to backstage areas was not abused by Pepys, but some other patrons were not so well-behaved....

...(A). 6. Cf. above, p. 439 & n. 2. to have generally most company, as being better players.' By and by into the pit and there saw the play; which is pretty good, but my belly was full of what I had seen in the House; and so after the play done, away home and there...

...the dance ‘mm a great while'. Exactly four years later he ran into some milkmaids near Drury Lane ‘with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them'.”' By the end of the century- it had grown into a custom for the maids to tie up silver plate with the...

...featured milkmaids dancing through the streets. On May morning 1667 Pepys describes milkmaids in London 'with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them'. Unlike the holiday dancing we saw earlier, this seems to have been celebratory rather than competitive,...

...featured milkmaid, dancingthrough the streets. On May morning 1667 Pepys describes milkmaids in London ‘with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them'. Unlike the holiday dancing we saw earlier, this seems to have been celebratory rather than competitive,...

...new play, and is said now-a-days to have generally most company as being better players. "By and by into the pit, and there saw the play, which is pretty good, but my belly was full of what I had seen in the house, and so, after the play done away home, and there...