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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

My wife and I by coach, first to see my little picture that is
a-drawing, and thence to the Opera and there saw _Romeo and
Julett_, the first time it was ever acted.  But it is the play
of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life ...

		-- Pepys' Diary, 1 Mar. 1662

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