hall, good company, and very good music. … I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine formerly at Sir W. Davenant's opera.[1]
And out of doors:
Walked in Spring Garden. … A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant. … But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp.[2] …
In the country:
There was at a distance, under one of the trees on the common, a company got together that sang. I, at the distance, and so all the rest being a quarter of a mile off, took them for Waytes, so I rode up to them, and found them only voices, some citizens met by chance, that sung four or five parts excellently. I have not been more pleased with a snapp of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place, in all my life.[3]
At Bath (when the music is apparently part of the treatment) he is
carried away, wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair, home; and there one after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, sweating for an hour; and by and by comes musick to play to me, extraordinarily good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere: 5s.[4]
On board ship—on the vessel in which he crossed the Channel with the fleet that brought Charles II. back to England:
the Captain … did give us such musick upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on board, that I never expect to hear the like again.[5]
And, in London, among the people. To Pepys' house there comes
