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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

After dinner Mr. Sheply and I to the new Playhouse near
Lincolnes Inn fields (which was formerly Gibbons's
tennis-court) ... it is the finest playhouse, I believe, that
ever was in England.

		-- Pepys' Diary, 20 Nov. 1660

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