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for my indemnification to a lawsuit which I should not be on the way
to superintend.
The rest of the company consisted of a Mr Bourgeois a perfumer
I think he is in the Hay-Market a very decent intelligent useful
man, and three Maid-Servants who came down to prepare a
house for the reception of Lady .... who is expected here
to day — Mr Bourgeois having found a friend here whom he was
to meet, and the Maids being gone upon their business, Mrs H.
who had been disappointed by some accident of a gentleman whom her
husband had engaged to conduct her, was not sorry I suppose for
want of a better Cavaliere servante to put herself under my protection.
We went to the play and supped tête á together, I was
going to say tête a tête, which would not have been true, as
the tête a tête was spoilt by one of the aforesaid Maid-servants
whom she had engaged to be her bed-fellow, and who came in
at the time that was prescribed to her, before we had thought
of going to the play which does not finish here till very late.
In justice to truth and to the Lady I could do no less than tell
you who she had for a bedfellow, lest you should suspect any body
else.
The play-house is much prettier and the company performers
much better than I could have expected: the women in particula
a very decent set, at the head of whom figures Mrs Wilson
the rest almost all of them either act well or look well, or both,
and even sing well: the men but so-so: indeed they were in every
respect over-womaned, the females being so numerous that two
of them in the Castle of Andalusia (that was the play) took the
men's parts.
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