 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 860 pages
...serious; only Lacy did act the country gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the t sight it was to see them in their several robes....King came in with his crown on, ^ind his sceptre in Thence I to my new bookseller's, and there bought Hooker's Polity, the new edition,2 and Dugdale's... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 846 pages
...serious ; only Lacy did act the country gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places,...doing everything for money. The play took very much. Thence I to my new bookseller's, and there bought Hooker's Polity, the new edition,2 and Dugdale's... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1906 - 736 pages
...serious ; only Lacy did act the country-gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places,...doing everything for money. The play took very much. Thence I to my new bookseller's, and there bought " Hooker's Polity," 4 the new edition, and " Dugdale's... | |
 | Great Britain - 1917 - 1382 pages
...Concerning the earlier presentation, Pepys, 16 April 1667, says : ' Lacy did act the Country Gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all...selling of places and doing everything for money.' So angry was Charles II 'at the liberty taken by Lacy's part to abuse him to his face ' that 'he commanded... | |
 | Montague Summers - Drama - 1922 - 480 pages
...serious; only Lacy did act the country-gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places,...doing everything for money. The play took very much." Charles became so irate at being thus abused to his face that the play was promptly forbidden, and... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1924 - 390 pages
...disgrace in 1667 when, playing in Change of Crowns, he, as Pepys puts it, " did act the Country Gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all...selling of places and doing everything for money," for Charles II., who was present at the performance, was so angry at being abused to his face that... | |
 | Thomas Shadwell - Artists' books - 1927 - 600 pages
...serious ; only Lacy did aft the country-gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places,...doing everything for money. The play took very much. . . . Then home, a little at the office, and then to supper and to bed, mightily pleased with the new... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Actors - 1904 - 646 pages
...Hoyal in April, 1667. Pepys, who taw it represented, says, "Lacy acted a country gentleman, who abused the Court with all imaginable wit and plainness, about...and doing everything for money. The play took very well, but the King was very angry, and Lacy was committed to the Porter's Lodge" ("a sort of prison,"... | |
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I saw at that house, being a great play and serious ; only Lacy did act the country gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places, and doing everything for money. 
