[34] He practically retired from the active work of his profession about 1707.
[35] I can find no authority for this. The King's Company appear to have played regularly at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Dorset Garden was the new theatre of the Duke's Company.
[36] Pepys is no doubt accurate. The higher prices were charged apparently from the opening of the old theatre in 1663.
[37] Genest conjectures, I think justly, that this must have happened at a rehearsal. Downes says nothing about the house being ecstatic.
[38] Very doubtful. The cause of his retirement was no doubt the quarrel afterwards mentioned. If he was off the stage for eleven years, as Dr. Doran says, he must have retired in 1684, long before William was king.
RIVER VIEW OF DUKE'S THEATRE.