samuel pepys, diary entry for 29 september, 1662: "this day my oaths of drinking wine and going to plays are out, and so i do resolve to take a liberty to-day, and then to fall to them again. to the king's theatre, where we saw ""midsummer's night's dream" [sic]," which i had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever i saw in my life. i saw, i confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure."