MR. PIPS HIS DIARY.
Regente Strete at Fovr of ye Clocke, P.M.
[Thurſday, Auguſt 16, 1849.]
THIS Afternoon, about four of the Clock, did walk in Regent Street, with much Delight. In the Evening to the Oueen's Houſe in the Haymarket, to hear Mozart his famous Opera "Le Nozze di Figaro," and Sontag in Sufanna, which ſhe do act mighty ſkittiſh, and with the prettieſt ſidelong Looks, but the moſt graceful and like a Lady, and do trip the Stage the daintieſt, and make the niceſt Curtſies, and ſing the ſweeteſt that methinks I ever did hear or ſee: and to think that Mr. Vieuxboys ſhould tell me ſhe do it as well now as he did ſee her twenty Years ago! Pretty, to hear her ſing "Venite, inginocchiatevi" where ſhe do make Cherubino kneel down on the Cuſhion before the Counteſs, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat his Chin and Face. Alſo her ringing of "Sull' Aria" with Parodi, the Counteſs, dictating the Letter to her; and Parodi did ſing well too, and the mingling of their Voices very muſicall. Likewiſe that jolly blooming ſhe-Bacchus Alboni, who was Cherubino, with her paſſionate fine ſinging of "Non ſo pià" and "Voi che ſapete" and all her ſinging, did delight me much; and ſhe did play a Stripling of a Page in Love to the very Life. Belletti did mightily take me with his Knaveries, in Figaro, and ſinging of "Non pià andrai," which is a moſt lively and martial Song; and the Grand March very brave as well, and did make my Heart leap, and me almoſt
