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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

... after dinner we walked to the King's playhouse, all in dirt,
they being altering of the Stage to make it wider---but God knows
when they will being to act again.  But my business here was to
see the inside of the Stage and all the tiring roomes and
Machines; and endeed it was a sight worthy seeing.  But to see
their clothes and the various sorts, and what a mixture of things
there was, here a wooden leg, there a ruff, here a hobby-horse,
there a Crowne, would make a man split himself to see with
laughing---and particularly Lacys wardrobe, and Shotrell's.  But
then again, to think how fine they show on the s tage by
candlelight, and how poor things they are to look now too
nearhand, is not pleasant at all.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 19 Mar. 1666

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