and Mrs.
Nellie as they cal'd an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and...

standing on ye greene walke under it.

I was heartily sorry at the scene.

Thence the King walked to the Dutchess of Cleaveland, another lady of pleasure, and curse of our nation'.

Evelyn is usually so strict about any reference to the proprieties that it is hard to understand why this particular interview between King Charles and Nell Gwynne should be mentioned so circumstantially.