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house at Westminster. "June 7th. -- After church to Sir W. Batten's; where my Lady Batten inveighed mightily against the German Princesse, and I as high in the defence of her wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the Sessions. "April 15th, 1664. -- To the Duke's house, and there saw ‘The German Princesse' acted by the woman herself; but never was anything so well done in earnest, worse performed in jest upon the stage." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. |