Pepys’ Shows, via Theatricaliafreshen anew

In reference to a production of Wit in a Constable on 23rd May 1662, Samuel Pepys noted:

“There coming much company after dinner to my Lord, my wife and I slunk away to the Opera, where we saw “Witt in a Constable,” the first time that it is acted; but so silly a play I never saw I think in my life.”