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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord Brouncker
by coach as far as the Temple---in the way, he telling me that my Lady
Denham is at last dead.  Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be
best known when her body is opened; which will be today, she dying
yesterday morning.  The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath
declared he will never have a public mistress again---which I shall be
glad of, and would the King would do the like.

... thence to the Duke's house and saw /Macbeth/; which though I saw
it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but
especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a
strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 7 Jan. 1667

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