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36 parts for him. She comes to speak to him in the pit of the theatre.

He goes with her by coach to Kensington, to the Grotto. She sings:

Ah, the pleasant evenings which Pepys enjoyed in the company of these charming musicians: his wife, his wife's friends, her servants, and the pretty actresses! Sometimes Knipp makes one of them in her stage costume,

Pepys relishes his happiness; at night, on his pillow, he recounts to himself the details of these delightful evenings: