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Up, and to the office, where I was all the morning doing +business, at noon home to dinner, and after dinner down by water, though +it was a thick misty and rainy day, and walked to Deptford from Redriffe, +and there to Bagwell's by appointment, where the 'mulier etoit within +expecting me venir . . . . By and by 'su marido' come in, and there +without any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting +him the new ship building by Mr. Deane, which I shall do for him. Thence +by and by after a little talk I to the yard, and spoke with some of the +officers, but staid but little, and the new clerk of the 'Chequer, +Fownes, did walk to Redriffe back with me. I perceive he is a very +child, and is led by the nose by Cowly and his kinsman that was his +clerk, but I did make him understand his duty, and put both understanding +and spirit into him, so that I hope he will do well. [Much surprised to +hear this day at Deptford that Mrs. Batters is going already to be +married to him, that is now the Captain of her husband's ship. She +seemed the most passionate mourner in the world. But I believe it cannot +be true.]--(The passage between brackets is written in the margin of the +MS.)--Thence by water to Billingsgate; thence to the Old Swan, and there +took boat, it being now night, to Westminster Hall, there to the Hall, +and find Doll Lane, and 'con elle' I went to the Bell Taverne, and 'ibi +je' did do what I would 'con elle' as well as I could, she 'sedendo +sobre' thus far and making some little resistance. But all with much +content, and 'je tenai' much pleasure 'cum ista'. There parted, and I by +coach home, and to the office, where pretty late doing business, and then +home, and merry with my wife, and to supper. My brother and I did play +with the base, and I upon my viallin, which I have not seen out of the +case now I think these three years, or more, having lost the key, and now +forced to find an expedient to open it. Then to bed. + + + +2nd. Up, and to the office. This day I hear that Prince Rupert is to be +trepanned. God give good issue to it. Sir W. Pen looks upon me, and I +on him, and speak about business together at the table well enough, but +no friendship or intimacy since our late difference about his closet, nor +do I desire to have any. At noon dined well, and my brother and I to +write over once more with my own hand my catalogue of books, while he +reads to me. After something of that done, and dined, I to the office, +where all the afternoon till night busy. At night, having done all my +office matters, I home, and my brother and I to go on with my catalogue, +and so to supper. Mrs. Turner come to me this night again to condole her +condition and the ill usage she receives from my Lord Bruncker, which I +could never have expected from him, and shall be a good caution to me +while I live. She gone, I to supper, and then to read a little, and to +bed. This night comes home my new silver snuffe-dish, which I do give +myself for my closet, which is all I purpose to bestow in plate of +myself, or shall need, many a day, if I can keep what I have. So to bed. +I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with +me last night from Westminster Hall, of Dryden's' upon the present war; a +very good poem. + + + +3rd (Lord's day). Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to White +Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there staid till he was +ready, talking, and among other things of the Prince's being trepanned, +which was in doing just as we passed through the Stone Gallery, we asking +at the door of his lodgings, and were told so. We are all full of wishes +for the good success; though I dare say but few do really concern +ourselves for him in our hearts. Up to the Duke of York, and with him +did our business we come about, and among other things resolve upon a +meeting at the office to-morrow morning, Sir W. Coventry to be there to +determine of all things necessary for the setting of Sir W. Pen to work +in his Victualling business. This did awake in me some thoughts of what +might in discourse fall out touching my imployment, and did give me some +apprehension of trouble. Having done here, and after our laying our +necessities for money open to the Duke of York, but nothing obtained +concerning it, we parted, and I with others into the House, and there +hear that the work is done to the Prince in a few minutes without any +pain at all to him, he not knowing when it was done. It was performed by +Moulins. Having cut the outward table, as they call it, they find the +inner all corrupted, so as it come out without any force; and their fear +is, that the whole inside of his head is corrupted like that, which do +yet make them afeard of him; but no ill accident appeared in the doing of +the thing, but all with all imaginable success, as Sir Alexander Frazier +did tell me himself, I asking him, who is very kind to me. I to the +Chapel a little, but hearing nothing did take a turn into the Park, and +then back to Chapel and heard a very good Anthem to my heart's delight, +and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and before dinner did walk with +him alone a good while, and from him hear our case likely for all these +acts to be bad for money, which troubles me, the year speeding so fast, +and he tells me that he believes the Duke of York will go to sea with the +fleete, which I am sorry for in respect to his person, but yet there is +no person in condition to command the fleete, now the Captains are grown +so great, but him, it being impossible for anybody else but him to +command any order or discipline among them. He tells me there is nothing +at all in the late discourse about my Lord Sandwich and the French +Embassador meeting and contending for the way, which I wonder at, to see +the confidence of report without any ground. By and by to dinner, where +very good company. Among other discourse, we talked much of Nostradamus + + [Michael Nostradamus, a physician and astrologer, born in the + diocese of Avignon, 1503. Amongst other predictions, one was + interpreted as foreshowing the singular death of Hen. II. of France, + by which his reputation was increased.] + +his prophecy of these times, and the burning of the City of London, some +of whose verses are put into Booker's' Almanack this year; and Sir G. +Carteret did tell a story, how at his death he did make the town swear +that he should never be dug up, or his tomb opened, after he was buried; +but they did after sixty years do it, and upon his breast they found a +plate of brasse, saying what a wicked and unfaithful people the people of +that place were, who after so many vows should disturb and open him such +a day and year and hour; which, if true, is very strange. Then we fell +to talking of the burning of the City; and my Lady Carteret herself did +tell us how abundance of pieces of burnt papers were cast by the wind as +far as Cranborne; and among others she took up one, or had one brought +her to see, which was a little bit of paper that had been printed, +whereon there remained no more nor less than these words: "Time is, it is +done." After dinner I went and took a turn into the Park, and then took +boat and away home, and there to my chamber and to read, but did receive +some letters from Sir W. Coventry, touching the want of victuals to +Kempthorne's' fleete going to the Streights and now in the Downes: which +did trouble me, he saying that this disappointment might prove fatal; and +the more, because Sir W. Coventry do intend to come to the office upon +business to-morrow morning, and I shall not know what answer to give him. +This did mightily trouble my mind; however, I fell to read a little in +Hakewill's Apology, and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of +the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good +condition in all respects as ever it was as to nature. I continued +reading this book with great pleasure till supper, and then to bed sooner +than ordinary, for rising betimes in the morning to-morrow. So after +reading my usual vows to bed, my mind full of trouble against to-morrow, +and did not sleep any good time of the night for thoughts of to-morrow +morning's trouble. + + + +4th. I up, with my head troubled to think of the issue of this morning, +so made ready and to the office, where Mr. Gawden comes, and he and I +discoursed the business well, and thinks I shall get off well enough; but +I do by Sir W. Coventry's silence conclude that he is not satisfied in my +management of my place and the charge it puts the King to, which I +confess I am not in present condition through my late laziness to give +any good answer to. But here do D. Gawden give me a good cordiall this +morning, by telling me that he do give me five of the eight hundred +pounds on his account remaining in my hands to myself, for the service I +do him in my victualling business, and L100 for my particular share of +the profits of my Tangier imployment as Treasurer. This do begin to make +my heart glad, and I did dissemble it the better, so when Sir W. Coventry +did come, and the rest met, I did appear unconcerned, and did give him +answer pretty satisfactory what he asked me; so that I did get off this +meeting without any ground lost, but rather a great deal gained by +interposing that which did belong to my duty to do, and neither [Sir] W. +Coventry nor (Sir) W. Yen did oppose anything thereunto, which did make +my heart very glad. All the morning at this work, Sir W. Pen making a +great deal of do for the fitting him in his setting out in his +employment, and I do yield to any trouble that he gives me without any +contradiction. Sir W. Coventry being gone, we at noon to dinner to Sir +W. Pen's, he inviting me and my wife, and there a pretty good dinner, +intended indeed for Sir W. Coventry, but he would not stay. So here I +was mighty merry and all our differences seemingly blown over, though he +knows, if he be not a fool, that I love him not, and I do the like that +he hates me. Soon as dined, my wife and I out to the Duke's playhouse, +and there saw "Heraclius," an excellent play, to my extraordinary +content; and the more from the house being very full, and great company; +among others, Mrs. Steward, very fine, with her locks done up with +puffes, as my wife calls them: and several other great ladies had their +hair so, though I do not like it; but my wife do mightily--but it is only +because she sees it is the fashion. Here I saw my Lord Rochester and his +lady, Mrs. Mallet, who hath after all this ado married him; and, as I +hear some say in the pit, it is a great act of charity, for he hath no +estate. But it was pleasant to see how every body rose up when my Lord +John Butler, the Duke of Ormond's son, come into the pit towards the end +of the play, who was a servant--[lover]--to Mrs. Mallet, and now smiled +upon her, and she on him. I had sitting next to me a woman, the likest +my Lady Castlemayne that ever I saw anybody like another; but she is a +whore, I believe, for she is acquainted with every fine fellow, and +called them by their name, Jacke, and Tom, and before the end of the play +frisked to another place. Mightily pleased with the play, we home by +coach, and there a little to the office, and then to my chamber, and +there finished my Catalogue of my books with my own hand, and so to +supper and to bed, and had a good night's rest, the last night's being +troublesome, but now my heart light and full of resolution of standing +close to my business. + + + +5th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and +then home to dinner. Heard this morning that the Prince is much better, +and hath good rest. All the talk is that my Lord Sandwich hath perfected +the peace with Spayne, which is very good, if true. Sir H. Cholmly was +with me this morning, and told me of my Lord Bellasses's base dealings +with him by getting him to give him great gratuities to near L2000 for +his friendship in the business of the Mole, and hath been lately +underhand endeavouring to bring another man into his place as Governor, +so as to receive his money of Sir H. Cholmly for nothing. Dined at home, +and after dinner come Mrs. Daniel and her sister and staid and talked a +little, and then I to the office, and after setting my things in order at +the office I abroad with my wife and little Betty Michell, and took them +against my vowes, but I will make good my forfeit, to the King's house, +to show them a play, "The Chances." A good play I find it, and the +actors most good in it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very +properly, "All night I weepe;" and sung it admirably. The whole play +pleases me well: and most of all, the sight of many fine ladies--among +others, my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Middleton: the latter of the two +hath also a very excellent face and body, I think. Thence by coach to +the New Exchange, and there laid out money, and I did give Betty Michell +two pair of gloves and a dressing-box; and so home in the dark, over the +ruins, with a link. I was troubled with my pain, having got a bruise on +my right testicle, I know not how. But this I did make good use of to +make my wife shift sides with me, and I did come to sit 'avec' Betty +Michell, and there had her 'main', which 'elle' did give me very frankly +now, and did hazer whatever I 'voudrais avec la', which did 'plaisir' me +'grandement', and so set her at home with my mind mighty glad of what I +have prevailed for so far; and so home, and to the office, and did my +business there, and then home to supper, and after to set some things +right in my chamber, and so to bed. This morning, before I went to the +office, there come to me Mr. Young and Whistler, flaggmakers, and with +mighty earnestness did present me with, and press me to take a box, +wherein I could not guess there was less than L100 in gold: but I do +wholly refuse it, and did not at last take it. The truth is, not +thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity from, nor knowing any +considerable courtesy that ever I did do them, but desirous to keep +myself free from their reports, and to have it in my power to say I had +refused their offer. + + + +6th. Up, lying a little long in bed, and by water to White Hall, and +there find the Duke of York gone out, he being in haste to go to the +Parliament, and so all my Brethren were gone to the office too. So I to +Sir Ph. Warwicke's about my Tangier business, and then to Westminster +Hall, and walked up and down, and hear that the Prince do still rest well +by day and night, and out of pain; so as great hopes are conceived of +him: though I did meet Dr. Clerke and Mr. Pierce, and they do say they +believe he will not recover it, they supposing that his whole head within +is eaten by this corruption, which appeared in this piece of the inner +table. Up to the Parliament door, and there discoursed with Roger Pepys, +who goes out of town this week, the Parliament rising this week also. So +down to the Hall and there spied Betty Michell, and so I sent for burnt +wine to Mrs. Michell's, and there did drink with the two mothers, and by +that means with Betty, poor girle, whom I love with all my heart. And +God forgive me, it did make me stay longer and hover all the morning up +and down the Hall to 'busquer occasions para ambulare con elle. But ego +ne pouvoir'. So home by water and to dinner, and then to the office, +where we sat upon Denis Gawden's accounts, and before night I rose and by +water to White Hall, to attend the Council; but they sat not to-day. So +to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and find him within, and with a letter from +the Downes in his hands, telling the loss of the St. Patricke coming from +Harwich in her way to Portsmouth; and would needs chase two ships (she +having the Malago fire-ship in company) which from English colours put up +Dutch, and he would clap on board the Vice-Admirall; and after long +dispute the Admirall comes on the other side of him, and both together +took him. Our fire-ship (Seely) not coming in to fire all three, but +come away, leaving her in their possession, and carried away by them: a +ship built at Bristoll the last year, of fifty guns and upwards, and a +most excellent good ship. This made him very melancholy. I to talk of +our wants of money, but I do find that he is not pleased with that +discourse, but grieves to hear it, and do seem to think that Sir G. +Carteret do not mind the getting of money with the same good cheer that +he did heretofore, nor do I think he hath the same reason. Thence to +Westminster Hall, thinking to see Betty Michell, she staying there all +night, and had hopes to get her out alone, but missed, and so away by +coach home, and to Sir W. Batten's, to tell him my bad news, and then to +the office, and home to supper, where Mrs. Hewer was, and after supper +and she gone, W. Hewer talking with me very late of the ill manner of Sir +G. Carteret's accounts being kept, and in what a sad condition he would +be if either Fenn or Wayth should break or die, and am resolved to take +some time to tell Sir G. Carteret or my Lady of it, I do love them so +well and their family. So to bed, my pain pretty well gone. + + + +7th. Lay long with pleasure with my wife, and then up and to the office, +where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and before dinner I went +into my green dining room, and there talking with my brother upon matters +relating to his journey to Brampton to-morrow, and giving him good +counsel about spending the time when he shall stay in the country with my +father, I looking another way heard him fall down, and turned my head, +and he was fallen down all along upon the ground dead, which did put me +into a great fright; and, to see my brotherly love! I did presently lift +him up from the ground, he being as pale as death; and, being upon his +legs, he did presently come to himself, and said he had something come +into his stomach very hot. He knew not what it was, nor ever had such a +fit before. I never was so frighted but once, when my wife was ill at +Ware upon the road, and I did continue trembling a good while and ready +to weepe to see him, he continuing mighty pale all dinner and melancholy, +that I was loth to let him take his journey tomorrow; but he began to be +pretty well, and after dinner my wife and Barker fell to singing, which +pleased me pretty well, my wife taking mighty pains and proud that she +shall come to trill, and indeed I think she will. So to the office, and +there all the afternoon late doing business, and then home, and find my +brother pretty well. So to write a letter to my Lady Sandwich for him to +carry, I having not writ to her a great while. Then to supper and so to +bed. I did this night give him 20s. for books, and as much for his +pocket, and 15s. to carry him down, and so to bed. Poor fellow! he is +so melancholy, and withal, my wife says, harmless, that I begin to love +him, and would be loth he should not do well. + + + +8th. This morning my brother John come up to my bedside, and took his +leave of us, going this day to Brampton. My wife loves him mightily as +one that is pretty harmless, and I do begin to fancy him from yesterday's +accident, it troubling me to think I should be left without a brother or +sister, which is the first time that ever I had thoughts of that kind in +my life. He gone, I up, and to the office, where we sat upon the +Victuallers' accounts all the morning. At noon Lord Bruncker, Sir W. +Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself to the Swan in Leadenhall Street to +dinner, where an exceedingly good dinner and good discourse. Sir W. +Batten come this morning from the House, where the King hath prorogued +this Parliament to October next. I am glad they are up. The Bill for +Accounts was not offered, the party being willing to let it fall; but the +King did tell them he expected it. They are parted with great +heartburnings, one party against the other. Pray God bring them +hereafter together in better temper! It is said that the King do intend +himself in this interval to take away Lord Mordaunt's government, so as +to do something to appease the House against they come together, and let +them see he will do that of his own accord which is fit, without their +forcing him; and that he will have his Commission for Accounts go on +which will be good things. At dinner we talked much of Cromwell; all +saying he was a brave fellow, and did owe his crowne he got to himself as +much as any man that ever got one. Thence to the office, and there begun +the account which Sir W. Pen by his late employment hath examined, but +begun to examine it in the old manner, a clerk to read the Petty +warrants, my Lord Bruncker upon very good ground did except against it, +and would not suffer him to go on. This being Sir W. Pen's clerk he took +it in snuff, and so hot they grew upon it that my Lord Bruncker left the +office. He gone (Sir) W. Pen ranted like a devil, saying that nothing +but ignorance could do this. I was pleased at heart all this while. At +last moved to have Lord Bruncker desired to return, which he did, and I +read the petty warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very +weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to +attend this, but mightily pleased at this falling out, and the truth is +[Sir] W. Pen do make so much noise in this business of his, and do it so +little and so ill, that I think the King will be little the better by +changing the hand. So up and to my office a little, but being at it all +day I could not do much there. So home and to supper, to teach Barker to +sing another piece of my song, and then to bed. + + + +9th. To the office, where we sat all the morning busy. At noon home to +dinner, and then to my office again, where also busy, very busy late, and +then went home and read a piece of a play, "Every Man in his Humour,"-- +[Ben Jonson's well-known play.]--wherein is the greatest propriety of +speech that ever I read in my life: and so to bed. This noon come my +wife's watchmaker, and received L12 of me for her watch; but Captain Rolt +coming to speak with me about a little business, he did judge of the work +to be very good work, and so I am well contented, and he hath made very +good, that I knew, to Sir W. Pen and Lady Batten. + + + +10th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made +an unnecessary sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself +nor the people. Home, where Michell and his wife, and also there come +Mr. Carter, my old acquaintance of Magdalene College, who hath not been +here of many years. He hath spent his time in the North with the Bishop +of Carlisle much. He is grown a very comely person, and of good +discourse, and one that I like very much. We had much talk of our old +acquaintance of the College, concerning their various fortunes; wherein, +to my joy, I met not with any that have sped better than myself. After +dinner he went away, and awhile after them Michell and his wife, whom I +love mightily, and then I to my chamber there to my Tangier accounts, +which I had let run a little behind hand, but did settle them very well +to my satisfaction, but it cost me sitting up till two in the morning, +and the longer by reason that our neighbour, Mrs. Turner, poor woman, did +come to take her leave of us, she being to quit her house to-morrow to my +Lord Bruncker, who hath used her very unhandsomely. She is going to +lodgings, and do tell me very odde stories how Mrs. Williams do receive +the applications of people, and hath presents, and she is the hand that +receives all, while my Lord Bruncker do the business, which will shortly +come to be loud talk if she continues here, I do foresee, and bring my +Lord no great credit. So having done all my business, to bed. + + + +11th. Up, and by water to the Temple, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwicke's +about my Tangier warrant for tallies, and there met my Lord Bellasses and +Creed, and discoursed about our business of money, but we are defeated as +to any hopes of getting [any] thing upon the Poll Bill, which I seem but +not much troubled at, it not concerning me much. Thence with Creed to +Westminster Hall, and there up and down, and heard that Prince Rupert is +still better and better; and that he did tell Dr. Troutbecke expressly +that my Lord Sandwich is ordered home. I hear, too, that Prince Rupert +hath begged the having of all the stolen prize-goods which he can find, +and that he is looking out anew after them, which at first troubled me; +but I do see it cannot come to anything, but is done by Hayes, or some of +his little people about him. Here, among other newes, I bought the +King's speech at proroguing the House the other day, wherein are some +words which cannot but import some prospect of a peace, which God send +us! After walking a good while in the Hall, it being Term time, I home +by water, calling at Michell's and giving him a fair occasion to send his +wife to the New Exchange to meet my wife and me this afternoon. So home +to dinner, and after dinner by coach to Lord Bellasses, and with him to +Povy's house, whom we find with Auditor Beale and Vernatty about their +accounts still, which is never likely to have end. Our business was to +speak with Vernatty, who is certainly a most cunning knave as ever was +born. Having done what we had to do there, my Lord carried me and set me +down at the New Exchange, where I staid at Pottle's shop till Betty +Michell come, which she did about five o'clock, and was surprised not to +'trouver my muger' I there; but I did make an excuse good enough, and so +I took 'elle' down, and over the water to the cabinet-maker's, and there +bought a dressing-box for her for 20s., but would require an hour's time +to make fit. This I was glad of, thinking to have got 'elle' to enter to +a 'casa de biber', but 'elle' would not, so I did not much press it, but +suffered 'elle' to enter 'a la casa de uno de sus hermanos', and so I +past my time walking up and down, and among other places, to one +Drumbleby, a maker of flageolets, the best in towne. He not within, my +design to bespeak a pair of flageolets of the same tune, ordered him to +come to me in a day or two, and so I back to the cabinet-maker's and +there staid; and by and by Betty comes, and here we staid in the shop and +above seeing the workmen work, which was pretty, and some exceeding good +work, and very pleasant to see them do it, till it was late quite dark, +and the mistresse of the shop took us into the kitchen and there talked +and used us very prettily, and took her for my wife, which I owned and +her big belly, and there very merry, till my thing done, and then took +coach and home . . . . But now comes our trouble, I did begin to +fear that 'su marido' might go to my house to 'enquire pour elle', and +there, 'trouvant' my 'muger'--[wife in Spanish.]-- at home, would not +only think himself, but give my 'femme' occasion to think strange things. +This did trouble me mightily, so though 'elle' would not seem to have me +trouble myself about it, yet did agree to the stopping the coach at the +streete's end, and 'je allois con elle' home, and there presently hear by +him that he had newly sent 'su mayde' to my house to see for her +mistresse. This do much perplex me, and I did go presently home Betty +whispering me behind the 'tergo de her mari', that if I would say that we +did come home by water, 'elle' could make up 'la cose well satis', and +there in a sweat did walk in the entry ante my door, thinking what I +should say a my 'femme', and as God would have it, while I was in this +case (the worst in reference a my 'femme' that ever I was in in my life), +a little woman comes stumbling to the entry steps in the dark; whom +asking who she was, she enquired for my house. So knowing her voice, and +telling her 'su donna' is come home she went away. But, Lord! in what a +trouble was I, when she was gone, to recollect whether this was not the +second time of her coming, but at last concluding that she had not been +here before, I did bless myself in my good fortune in getting home before +her, and do verily believe she had loitered some time by the way, which +was my great good fortune, and so I in a-doors and there find all well. +So my heart full of joy, I to the office awhile, and then home, and after +supper and doing a little business in my chamber I to bed, after teaching +Barker a little of my song. + + + +12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, with several +things (among others) discoursed relating to our two new assistant +controllers, but especially Sir W. Pen, who is mighty troublesome in it. +At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there did much +business, and by and by comes Mr. Moore, who in discourse did almost +convince me that it is necessary for my Lord Sandwich to come home end +take his command at sea this year, for that a peace is like to be. Many +considerations he did give me hereupon, which were very good both in +reference to the publick arid his private condition. By and by with Lord +Bruncker by coach to his house, there to hear some Italian musique: and +here we met Tom Killigrew, Sir Robert Murray, and the Italian Signor +Baptista, who hath composed a play in Italian for the Opera, which +T. Killigrew do intend to have up; and here he did sing one of the acts. +He himself is the poet as well as the musician; which is very much, and +did sing the whole from the words without any musique prickt, and played +all along upon a harpsicon most admirably, and the composition most +excellent. The words I did not understand, and so know not how they are +fitted, but believe very well, and all in the recitativo very fine. But +I perceive there is a proper accent in every country's discourse, and +that do reach in their setting of notes to words, which, therefore, +cannot be natural to any body else but them; so that I am not so much +smitten with it as, it may be, I should be, if I were acquainted with +their accent. But the whole composition is certainly most excellent; +and the poetry, T. Killigrew and Sir R. Murray, who understood the words, +did say was excellent. I confess I was mightily pleased with the +musique. He pretends not to voice, though it be good, but not excellent. +This done, T. Killigrew and I to talk: and he tells me how the audience +at his house is not above half so much as it used to be before the late +fire. That Knipp is like to make the best actor that ever come upon the +stage, she understanding so well: that they are going to give her L30 +a-year more. That the stage is now by his pains a thousand times better +and more glorious than ever heretofore. Now, wax-candles, and many of +them; then, not above 3 lbs. of tallow: now, all things civil, no +rudeness anywhere; then, as in a bear-garden then, two or three fiddlers; +now, nine or ten of the best then, nothing but rushes upon the ground, +and every thing else mean; and now, all otherwise: then, the Queen seldom +and the King never would come; now, not the King only for state, but all +civil people do think they may come as well as any. He tells me that he +hath gone several times, eight or ten times, he tells me, hence to Rome +to hear good musique; so much he loves it, though he never did sing or +play a note. That he hath ever endeavoured in the late King's time, and +in this, to introduce good musique, but he never could do it, there never +having been any musique here better than ballads. Nay, says, "Hermitt +poore" and "Chevy Chese" + + ["Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure" is found in "The + Phoenix Nest," 1593, and in Harl. MS. No. 6910, written soon after + 1596. It was set to music by Alfonso Ferrabosco, and published in + his "Ayres," 1609. The song was a favourite with Izaak Walton, and + is alluded to in "Hudibras" (Part I., canto ii., line 1169). See + Rimbault's "Little Book of Songs and Ballads," 1851, p. 98. Both + versions of the famous ballad of "Chevy Chase" are printed in + Percy's "Reliques."] + +was all the musique we had; and yet no ordinary fiddlers get so much +money as ours do here, which speaks our rudenesse still. That he hath +gathered our Italians from several Courts in Christendome, to come to +make a concert for the King, which he do give L200 a-year a-piece to: but +badly paid, and do come in the room of keeping four ridiculous gundilows, + + [The gondolas mentioned before, as sent by the Doge of Venice. See + September 12th, 1661] + +he having got, the King to put them away, and lay out money this way; +and indeed I do commend him for it, for I think it is a very noble +undertaking. He do intend to have some times of the year these operas to +be performed at the two present theatres, since he is defeated in what he +intended in Moorefields on purpose for it; and he tells me plainly that +the City audience was as good as the Court, but now they are most gone. +Baptista tells me that Giacomo Charissimi is still alive at Rome, who was +master to Vinnecotio, who is one of the Italians that the King hath here, +and the chief composer of them. My great wonder is, how this man do to +keep in memory so perfectly the musique of the whole act, both for the +voice and the instrument too. I confess I do admire it: but in +recitativo the sense much helps him, for there is but one proper way of +discoursing and giving the accents. Having done our discourse, we all +took coaches, my Lord's and T. Killigrew's, and to Mrs. Knipp's chamber, +where this Italian is to teach her to sing her part. And so we all +thither, and there she did sing an Italian song or two very fine, while +he played the bass upon a harpsicon there; and exceedingly taken I am +with her singing, and believe that she will do miracles at that and +acting. Her little girl is mighty pretty and witty. After being there +an hour, and I mightily pleased with this evening's work, we all parted, +and I took coach and home, where late at my office, and then home to +enter my last three days' Journall; and so to supper and to bed, troubled +at nothing, but that these pleasures do hinder me in my business, and the +more by reason of our being to dine abroad to-morrow, and then Saturday +next is appointed to meet again at my Lord Bruncker's lodgings, and there +to have the whole quire of Italians; but then I do consider that this is +all the pleasure I live for in the world, and the greatest I can ever +expect in the best of my life, and one thing more, that by hearing this +man to-night, and I think Captain Cooke to-morrow, and the quire of +Italians on Saturday, I shall be truly able to distinguish which of them +pleases me truly best, which I do much desire to know and have good +reason and fresh occasion of judging. + + + +13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where to the Duke of York, and +there did our usual business; but troubled to see that, at this time, +after our declaring a debt to the Parliament of L900,000, and nothing +paid since, but the debt increased, and now the fleete to set out; to +hear that the King hath ordered but L35,000 for the setting out of the +fleete, out of the Poll Bill, to buy all provisions, when five times as +much had been little enough to have done any thing to purpose. They +have, indeed, ordered more for paying off of seamen and the Yards to some +time, but not enough for that neither. Another thing is, the acquainting +the Duke of York with the case of Mr. Lanyon, our agent at Plymouth, who +has trusted us to L8000 out of purse; we are not in condition, after so +many promises, to obtain him a farthing, nor though a message was carried +by Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry to the Commissioners for Prizes, +that he might have L3000 out of L20,000 worth of prizes to be shortly +sold there, that he might buy at the candle and pay for the goods out of +bills, and all would [not] do any thing, but that money must go all +another way, while the King's service is undone, and those that trust him +perish. These things grieve me to the heart. The Prince, I hear, is +every day better and better. So away by water home, stopping at +Michell's, where Mrs. Martin was, and I there drank with them and +whispered with Betty, who tells me all is well, but was prevented in +something she would have said, her 'marido venant' just then, a news +which did trouble me, and so drank and parted and home, and there took up +my wife by coach, and to Mrs. Pierce's, there to take her up, and with +them to Dr. Clerke's, by invitation, where we have not been a great +while, nor had any mind to go now, but that the Dr., whom I love, would +have us choose a day. Here was his wife, painted, and her sister +Worshipp, a widow now and mighty pretty in her mourning. Here was also +Mr. Pierce and Mr. Floyd, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Prizes, +and Captain Cooke, to dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth +and dishes, and everything poor. Discoursed most about plays and the +Opera, where, among other vanities, Captain Cooke had the arrogance to +say that he was fain to direct Sir W. Davenant in the breaking of his +verses into such and such lengths, according as would be fit for musick, +and how he used to swear at Davenant, and command him that way, when W. +Davenant would be angry, and find fault with this or that note--but a +vain coxcomb I perceive he is, though he sings and composes so well. But +what I wondered at, Dr. Clerke did say that Sir W. Davenant is no good +judge of a dramatick poem, finding fault with his choice of Henry the +5th, and others, for the stage, when I do think, and he confesses, "The +Siege of Rhodes" as good as ever was writ. After dinner Captain Cooke +and two of his boys to sing, but it was indeed both in performance and +composition most plainly below what I heard last night, which I could not +have believed. Besides overlooking the words which he sung, I find them +not at all humoured as they ought to be, and as I believed he had done +all he had sett. Though he himself do indeed sing in a manner as to +voice and manner the best I ever heard yet, and a strange mastery he hath +in making of extraordinary surprising closes, that are mighty pretty, but +his bragging that he do understand tones and sounds as well as any man in +the world, and better than Sir W. Davenant or any body else, I do not +like by no means, but was sick of it and of him for it. He gone, Dr. +Clerke fell to reading a new play, newly writ, of a friend's of his; but, +by his discourse and confession afterwards, it was his own. Some things, +but very few, moderately good; but infinitely far from the conceit, wit, +design, and language of very many plays that I know; so that, but for +compliment, I was quite tired with hearing it. It being done, and +commending the play, but against my judgment, only the prologue +magnifying the happiness of our former poets when such sorry things did +please the world as was then acted, was very good. So set Mrs. Pierce at +home, and away ourselves home, and there to my office, and then my +chamber till my eyes were sore at writing and making ready my letter and +accounts for the Commissioners of Tangier to-morrow, which being done, to +bed, hearing that there was a very great disorder this day at the Ticket +Office, to the beating and bruising of the face of Carcasse very much. +A foul evening this was to-night, and I mightily troubled to get a coach +home; and, which is now my common practice, going over the ruins in the +night, I rid with my sword drawn in the coach. + + + +14th. Up and to the office, where Carcasse comes with his plaistered +face, and called himself Sir W. Batten's martyr, which made W. Batten mad +almost, and mighty quarrelling there was. We spent the morning almost +wholly upon considering some way of keeping the peace at the Ticket +Office; but it is plain that the care of that office is nobody's work, +and that is it that makes it stand in the ill condition it do. At noon +home to dinner, and after dinner by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, and +there a meeting: the Duke of York, Duke of Albemarle, and several other +Lords of the Commission of Tangier. And there I did present a state of +my accounts, and managed them well; and my Lord Chancellor did say, +though he was, in other things, in an ill humour, that no man in England +was of more method, nor made himself better understood than myself. But +going, after the business of money was over, to other businesses, of +settling the garrison, he did fling out, and so did the Duke of York, two +or three severe words touching my Lord Bellasses: that he would have no +Governor come away from thence in less than three years; no, though his +lady were with child. "And," says the Duke of York, "there should be no +Governor continue so, longer than three years." "Nor," says Lord +Arlington, "when our rules are once set, and upon good judgment declared, +no Governor should offer to alter them."--" We must correct the many +things that are amiss there; for," says the Lord Chancellor, "you must +think we do hear of more things amisse than we are willing to speak +before our friends' faces." My Lord Bellasses would not take notice of +their reflecting on him, and did wisely, but there were also many +reflections on him. Thence away by coach to Sir H. Cholmly and +Fitzgerald and Creed, setting down the two latter at the New Exchange. +And Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there walked in the dark in +the walks talking of newes; and he surprises me with the certain newes +that the King did last night in Council declare his being in treaty with +the Dutch: that they had sent him a very civil letter, declaring that, if +nobody but themselves were concerned, they would not dispute the place of +treaty, but leave it to his choice; but that, being obliged to satisfy +therein a Prince of equal quality with himself, they must except any +place in England or Spayne. And so the King hath chosen the Hague, and +thither hath chose my Lord Hollis and Harry Coventry to go Embassadors to +treat; which is so mean a thing, as all the world will believe, that we +do go to beg a peace of them, whatever we pretend. And it seems all our +Court are mightily for a peace, taking this to be the time to make one, +while the King hath money, that he may save something of what the +Parliament hath given him to put him out of debt, so as he may need the +help of no more Parliaments, as to the point of money: but our debt is so +great, and expence daily so encreased, that I believe little of the money +will be saved between this and the making of the peace up. But that +which troubles me most is, that we have chosen a son of Secretary Morris, +a boy never used to any business, to go Embassador [Secretary] to the +Embassy, which shows how, little we are sensible of the weight of the +business upon us. God therefore give a good end to it, for I doubt it, +and yet do much more doubt the issue of our continuing the war, for we +are in no wise fit for it, and yet it troubles me to think what Sir H. +Cholmly says, that he believes they will not give us any reparation for +what we have suffered by the war, nor put us into any better condition +than what we were in before the war, for that will be shamefull for us. +Thence parted with him and home through the dark over the ruins by coach, +with my sword drawn, to the office, where dispatched some business; and +so home to my chamber and to supper and to bed. This morning come up to +my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be +her Valentine; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, +done by himself, very pretty; and we were both well pleased with it. But +I am also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me L5; but that +I must have laid out if we had not been Valentines. So to bed. + + + +15th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes by coach to White +Hall, where we attended upon the Duke of York to complain of the +disorders the other day among the seamen at the Pay at the Ticket Office, +and that it arises from lack of money, and that we desire, unless better +provided for with money, to have nothing more to do with the payment of +tickets, it being not our duty; and the Duke of York and [Sir] W. +Coventry did agree to it, so that I hope we shall be rid of that trouble. +This done, I moved for allowance for a house for Mr. Turner, and got it +granted. Then away to Westminster Hall, and there to the Exchequer about +my tallies, and so back to White Hall, and so with Lord Bellasses to the +Excise Office, where met by Sir H. Cholmly to consider about our business +of money there, and that done, home and to dinner, where I hear Pegg Pen +is married this day privately; no friends, but two or three relations on +his side and hers. Borrowed many things of my kitchen for dressing their +dinner. So after dinner to the office, and there busy and did much +business, and late at it. Mrs. Turner come to me to hear how matters +went; I told her of our getting rent for a house for her. She did give +me account of this wedding to-day, its being private being imputed to its +being just before Lent, and so in vain to make new clothes till Easter, +that they might see the fashions as they are like to be this summer; +which is reason good enough. Mrs. Turner tells me she hears [Sir W. Pen] +gives L4500 or 4000 with her. They are gone to bed, so I wish them much +sport, and home to supper and to bed. They own the treaty for a peace +publickly at Court, and the Commissioners providing themselves to go over +as soon as a passe comes for them. + + + +16th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. Among other things +great heat we were all in on one side or other in the examining witnesses +against Mr. Carcasse about his buying of tickets, and a cunning knave I +do believe he is, and will appear, though I have thought otherwise +heretofore. At noon home to dinner, and there find Mr. Andrews, and +Pierce and Hollyard, and they dined with us and merry, but we did rise +soon for saving of my wife's seeing a new play this afternoon, and so +away by coach, and left her at Mrs. Pierces, myself to the Excise Office +about business, and thence to the Temple to walk a little only, and then +to Westminster to pass away time till anon, and here I went to Mrs. +Martin's to thank her for her oysters . . . . Thence away to my Lord +Bruncker's, and there was Sir Robert Murray, whom I never understood so +well as now by this opportunity of discourse with him, a most excellent +man of reason and learning, and understands the doctrine of musique, and +everything else I could discourse of, very finely. Here come Mr. Hooke, +Sir George Ent, Dr. Wren, and many others; and by and by the musique, +that is to say, Signor Vincentio, who is the master-composer, and six +more, whereof two eunuches, so tall, that Sir T. Harvey said well that he +believes they do grow large by being gelt as our oxen do, and one woman +very well dressed and handsome enough, but would not be kissed, as Mr. +Killigrew, who brought the company in, did acquaint us. They sent two +harpsicons before; and by and by, after tuning them, they begun; and, I +confess, very good musique they made; that is, the composition exceeding +good, but yet not at all more pleasing to me than what I have heard in +English by Mrs. Knipp, Captain Cooke, and others. Nor do I dote on the +eunuches; they sing, indeed, pretty high, and have a mellow kind of +sound, but yet I have been as well satisfied with several women's voices +and men also, as Crispe of the Wardrobe. The women sung well, but that +which distinguishes all is this, that in singing, the words are to be +considered, and how they are fitted with notes, and then the common +accent of the country is to be known and understood by the hearer, or he +will never be a good judge of the vocal musique of another country. So +that I was not taken with this at all, neither understanding the first, +nor by practice reconciled to the latter, so that their motions, and +risings and fallings, though it may be pleasing to an Italian, or one +that understands the tongue, yet to me it did not, but do from my heart +believe that I could set words in English, and make musique of them more +agreeable to any Englishman's eare (the most judicious) than any Italian +musique set for the voice, and performed before the same man, unless he +be acquainted with the Italian accent of speech. The composition as to +the musique part was exceeding good, and their justness in keeping time +by practice much before any that we have, unless it be a good band of +practised fiddlers. So away, here being Captain Cocke, who is stole +away, leaving them at it, in his coach, and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I +took up my wife, and there I find Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my +Valentine, she having drawn me; which I was not sorry for, it easing me +of something more that I must have given to others. But here I do first +observe the fashion of drawing of mottos as well as names; so that +Pierce, who drew my wife, did draw also a motto, and this girl drew +another for me. What mine was I have forgot; but my wife's was, "Most +virtuous and most fair;" which, as it may be used, or an anagram made +upon each name, might be very pretty. Thence with Cocke and my wife, set +him at home, and then we home. To the office, and there did a little +business, troubled that I have so much been hindered by matters of +pleasure from my business, but I shall recover it I hope in a little +time. So home and to supper, not at all smitten with the musique to- +night, which I did expect should have been so extraordinary, Tom +Killigrew crying it up, and so all the world, above all things in the +world, and so to bed. One wonder I observed to-day, that there was no +musique in the morning to call up our new-married people, which is very +mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch. + + + +17th (Lord's day). Up, and called at Michell's, and took him and his +wife and carried them to Westminster, I landing at White Hall, and having +no pleasure in the way 'con elle'; and so to the Duke's, where we all met +and had a hot encounter before the Duke of York about the business of our +payments at the Ticket Office, where we urged that we had nothing to do +to be troubled with the pay, having examined the tickets. Besides, we +are neglected, having not money sent us in time, but to see the baseness +of my brethren, not a man almost put in a word but Sir W. Coventry, +though at the office like very devils in this point. But I did plainly +declare that, without money, no fleete could be expected, and desired the +Duke of York to take notice of it, and notice was taken of it, but I +doubt will do no good. But I desire to remember it as a most prodigious +thing that to this day my Lord Treasurer hath not consulted counsel, +which Sir W. Coventry and I and others do think is necessary, about the +late Poll act, enough to put the same into such order as that any body +dare lend money upon it, though we have from this office under our hands +related the necessity thereof to the Duke of York, nor is like to be +determined in, for ought I see, a good while had not Sir W. Coventry +plainly said that he did believe it would be a better work for the King +than going to church this morning, to send for the Atturney Generall to +meet at the Lord Treasurer's this afternoon and to bring the thing to an +issue, saying that himself, were he going to the Sacrament, would not +think he should offend God to leave it and go to the ending this work, so +much it is of moment to the King and Kingdom. Hereupon the Duke of York +said he would presently speak to the King, and cause it to be done this +afternoon. Having done here we broke up; having done nothing almost +though for all this, and by and by I met Sir G. Carteret, and he is stark +mad at what has passed this morning, and I believe is heartily vexed with +me: I said little, but I am sure the King will suffer if some better care +be not taken than he takes to look after this business of money. So +parted, and I by water home and to dinner, W. Hewer with us, a good +dinner and-very merry, my wife and I, and after dinner to my chamber, to +fit some things against: the Council anon, and that being done away to +White Hall by water, and thence to my Lord Chancellor's, where I met +with, and had much pretty discourse with, one of the Progers's that knows +me; and it was pretty to hear him tell me, of his own accord, as a matter +of no shame, that in Spayne he had a pretty woman, his mistress, whom, +when money grew scarce with him, he was forced to leave, and afterwards +heard how she and her husband lived well, she being kept by an old fryer +who used her as his whore; but this, says he, is better than as our +ministers do, who have wives that lay up their estates, and do no good +nor relieve any poor--no, not our greatest prelates, and I think he is in +the right for my part. Staid till the Council was up, and attended the +King and Duke of York round the Park, and was asked several questions by +both; but I was in pain, lest they should ask me what I could not answer; +as the Duke of York did the value of the hull of the St. Patrick lately +lost, which I told him I could not presently answer; though I might have +easily furnished myself to answer all those questions. They stood a good +while to see the ganders and geese tread one another in the water, the +goose being all the while kept for a great while: quite under water, +which was new to me, but they did make mighty sport of it, saying (as the +King did often) "Now you shall see a marriage, between this and that," +which did not please me. They gone, by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, +as the Duke of York told me, to settle the business of money for the +navy, I walked into the Court to and again till night, and there met +Colonell Reames, and he and I walked together a great while complaining +of the ill-management of things, whereof he is as full as I am. We ran +over many persons and things, and see nothing done like men like to do +well while the King minds his pleasures so much. We did bemoan it that +nobody would or had authority enough with the King to tell him how all +things go to rack and will be lost. Then he and I parted, and I to +Westminster to the Swan, and there staid till Michell and his wife come. +Old Michell and his wife come to see me, and there we drank and laughed a +little, and then the young ones and I took boat, it being fine moonshine. +I did to my trouble see all the way that 'elle' did get as close 'a su +marido' as 'elle' could, and turn her 'mains' away 'quand je' did +endeavour to take one. . . . So that I had no pleasure at all 'con +elle ce' night. When we landed I did take occasion to send him back a +the bateau while I did get a 'baiser' or two, and would have taken 'la' +by 'la' hand, but 'elle' did turn away, and 'quand' I said shall I not +'toucher' to answered 'ego' no love touching, in a slight mood. I seemed +not to take notice of it, but parted kindly; 'su marido' did alter with +me almost a my case, and there we parted, and so I home troubled at this, +but I think I shall make good use of it and mind my business more. +At home, by appointment, comes Captain Cocke to me, to talk of State +matters, and about the peace; who told me that the whole business is +managed between Kevet, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and my Lord Arlington, +who hath, by the interest of his wife there, some interest. We have +proposed the Hague, but know not yet whether the Dutch will like it; or; +if they do, whether the French will. We think we shall have the help of +the information of their affairs and state, and the helps of the Prince +of Orange his faction; but above all, that De Witt, who hath all this +while said he cannot get peace, his mouth will now be stopped, so that +he will be forced to offer fit terms for fear of the people; and, lastly, +if France or Spayne do not please us, we are in a way presently to clap +up a peace with the Dutch, and secure them. But we are also in treaty +with France, as he says: but it must be to the excluding our alliance +with the King of Spayne or House of Austria; which we do not know +presently what will be determined in. He tells me the Vice-Chamberlaine +is so great with the King, that, let the Duke of York, and Sir W. +Coventry, and this office, do or say what they will, while the King +lives, Sir G. Carteret will do what he will; and advises me to be often +with him, and eat and drink with him.; and tells me that he doubts he is +jealous of me, and was mighty mad to-day at our discourse to him before +the Duke of York. But I did give him my reasons that the office is +concerned to declare that, without money, the King's work cannot go on. +From that discourse we ran to others, and among the others he assures me +that Henry Bruncker is one of the shrewdest fellows for parts in England, +and a dangerous man; that if ever the Parliament comes again Sir W. +Coventry cannot stand, but in this I believe him not; that, while we want +money so much in the Navy, the Officers of the Ordnance have at this day +L300,000 good in tallys, which they can command money upon, got by their +over-estimating their charge in getting it reckoned as a fifth part of +the expense of the Navy; that Harry Coventry, who is to go upon this +treaty with Lord Hollis (who he confesses to be a very wise man) into +Holland, is a mighty quick, ready man, but not so weighty as he should +be, he knowing him so well in his drink as he do; that, unless the King +do do something against my Lord Mordaunt and the Patent for the Canary +Company, before the Parliament next meets, he do believe there will be a +civil war before there will be any more money given, unless it may be at +their perfect disposal; and that all things are now ordered to the +provoking of the Parliament against they come next, and the spending the +King's money, so as to put him into a necessity of having it at the time +it is prorogued for, or sooner. Having discoursed all this and much +more, he away, and I to supper and to read my vows, and to bed. My mind +troubled about Betty Michell, 'pour sa carriage' this night 'envers moy', +but do hope it will put me upon doing my business. This evening, going +to the Queen's side to see the ladies, I did find the Queene, the +Duchesse of York, and another or two, at cards, with the room full of +great ladies and men; which I was amazed at to see on a Sunday, having +not believed it; but, contrarily, flatly denied the same a little while +since to my cozen Roger Pepys? I did this day, going by water, read the +answer to "The Apology for Papists," which did like me mightily, it being +a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my life, +and glad I am that I read it. + + + +18th. Up, and to my bookbinder's, and there mightily pleased to see some +papers of the account we did give the Parliament of the expense of the +Navy sewed together, which I could not have conceived before how prettily +it was done. Then by coach to the Exchequer about some tallies, and +thence back again home, by the way meeting Mr. Weaver, of Huntingdon, and +did discourse our business of law together, which did ease my mind, for I +was afeard I have omitted doing what I in prudence ought to have done. +So home and to dinner, and after dinner to the office, where je had Mrs. +Burrows all sola a my closet, and did there 'baiser and toucher ses +mamelles' . . . . Thence away, and with my wife by coach to the Duke +of York's play-house, expecting a new play, and so stayed not no more +than other people, but to the King's house, to "The Mayd's Tragedy;" but +vexed all the while with two talking ladies and Sir Charles Sedley; yet +pleased to hear their discourse, he being a stranger. And one of the +ladies would, and did sit with her mask on, all the play, and, being +exceeding witty as ever I heard woman, did talk most pleasantly with him; +but was, I believe, a virtuous woman, and of quality. He would fain know +who she was, but she would not tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints +of her knowledge of him, by that means setting his brains at work to +find, out who she was, and did give him leave to use all means to find +out who she was, but pulling off her mask. He was mighty witty, and she +also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant +'rencontre' I never heard. But by that means lost the pleasure of the +play wholly, to which now and then Sir Charles Sedley's exceptions +against both words and pronouncing were very pretty. So home and to the +office, did much business, then home, to supper, and to bed. + + + +19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing little +business, our want of money being so infinite great. At noon home, and +there find old Mr. Michell and Howlett come to desire mine and my wife's +company to dinner to their son's, and so away by coach with them, it +being Betty's wedding-day a year, as also Shrove Tuesday. Here I made +myself mighty merry, the two old women being there also, and a mighty +pretty dinner we had in this little house, to my exceeding great content, +and my wife's, and my heart pleased to see Betty. But I have not been so +merry a very great while as with them, every thing pleasing me there as +much as among so mean company I could be pleased. After dinner I fell to +read the Acts about the building of the City again; + + [Burnet wrote ("History of his Own Time," book ii.): "An act passed + in this session for rebuilding the city of London, which gave Lord + Chief Justice Hale a great reputation, for it was drawn with so true + a judgment, and so great foresight, that the whole city was raised + out of its ashes without any suits of law."] + +and indeed the laws seem to be very good, and I pray God I may live to +see it built in that manner! Anon with much content home, walking with +my wife and her woman, and there to my office, where late doing much +business, and then home to supper and to bed. This morning I hear that +our discourse of peace is all in the dirt; for the Dutch will not like of +the place, or at least the French will not agree to it; so that I do +wonder what we shall do, for carry on the war we cannot. I long to hear +the truth of it to-morrow at Court. + + + +20th. Up, with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, by +the way observing Sir W. Pen's carrying a favour to Sir W. Coventry, for +his daughter's wedding, and saying that there was others for us, when we +will fetch them, which vexed me, and I am resolved not to wear it when he +orders me one. His wedding hath been so poorly kept, that I am ashamed +of it; for a fellow that makes such a flutter as he do. When we come to +the Duke of York here, I heard discourse how Harris of his play-house is +sick, and everybody commends him, and, above all things, for acting the +Cardinall. Here they talk also how the King's viallin,--[violin]-- +Bannister, is mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some +part of the King's musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth. +Then withdrew to his closett, all our business, lack of money and +prospect of the effects of it, such as made Sir W. Coventry say publickly +before us all, that he do heartily wish that his Royal Highness had +nothing to do in the Navy, whatever become of him; so much dishonour, +he says, is likely to fall under the management of it. The Duke of York +was angry, as much as he could be, or ever I saw him, with Sir G. +Carteret, for not paying the masters of some ships on Monday last, +according to his promise, and I do think Sir G. Carteret will make +himself unhappy by not taking some course either to borrow more money or +wholly lay aside his pretence to the charge of raising money, when he +hath nothing to do to trouble himself with. Thence to the Exchequer, +and there find the people in readiness to dispatch my tallies to-day, +though Ash Wednesday. So I back by coach to London to Sir Robt. Viner's +and there got L100, and come away with it and pay my fees round, and so +away with the 'Chequer men to the Leg in King Street, and there had wine +for them; and here was one in company with them, that was the man that +got the vessel to carry over the King from Bredhemson, who hath a pension +of 200 per annum, but ill paid, and the man is looking after getting of a +prizeship to live by; but the trouble is, that this poor man, who hath +received no part of his money these four years, and is ready to starve +almost, must yet pay to the Poll Bill for this pension. He told me +several particulars of the King's coming thither, which was mighty +pleasant, and shews how mean a thing a king is, how subject to fall, +and how like other men he is in his afflictions. Thence with my tallies +home, and a little dinner, and then with my wife by coach to Lincoln's +Inn Fields, sent her to her brother's, and I with Lord Bellasses to the +Lord Chancellor's. Lord Bellasses tells me how the King of France hath +caused the stop to be made to our proposition of treating in The Hague; +that he being greater than they, we may better come and treat at Paris: +so that God knows what will become of the peace! He tells me, too, +as a grand secret, that he do believe the peace offensive and defensive +between Spayne and us is quite finished, but must not be known, to +prevent the King of France's present falling upon Flanders. He do +believe the Duke of York will be made General of the Spanish armies +there, and Governor of Flanders, if the French should come against it, +and we assist the Spaniard: that we have done the Spaniard abundance of +mischief in the West Indys, by our privateers at Jamaica, which they +lament mightily, and I am sorry for it to have it done at this time. +By and by, come to my Lord Chancellor, who heard mighty quietly my +complaints for lack of money, and spoke mighty kind to me, but little +hopes of help therein, only his good word. He do prettily cry upon +Povy's account with sometimes seeming friendship and pity, and this day +quite the contrary. He do confess our streights here and every where +else arise from our outspending our revenue. I mean that the King do do +so. Thence away, took up my wife; who tells me her brother hath laid out +much money upon himself and wife for clothes, which I am sorry to hear, +it requiring great expense. So home and to the office a while, and then +home to supper, where Mrs. Turner come to us, and sat and talked. Poor +woman, I pity her, but she is very cunning. She concurs with me in the +falseness of Sir W. Pen's friendship, and she tells pretty storms of my +Lord Bruncker since he come to our end of the town, of people's +applications to Mrs. Williams. So, she gone, I back to my accounts of +Tangier, which I am settling, having my new tallies from the Exchequer +this day, and having set all right as I could wish, then to bed. + + + +21st. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and there a most +furious conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, in few words, and on a sudden +occasion, of no great moment, but very bitter, and stared on one another, +and so broke off; and to our business, my heart as full of spite as it +could hold, for which God forgive me and him! At the end of the day come +witnesses on behalf of Mr. Carcasse; but, instead of clearing him, I find +they were brought to recriminate Sir W. Batten, and did it by oath very +highly, that made the old man mad, and, I confess, me ashamed, so that I +caused all but ourselves to withdraw; being sorry to have such things +declared in the open office, before 100 people. But it was done home, +and I do believe true, though (Sir) W. Batten denies all, but is cruel +mad, and swore one of them, he or Carcasse, should not continue in the +Office, which is said like a fool. He gone, for he would not stay, and +[Sir] W. Pen gone a good while before, Lord Bruncker, Sir T. Harvy, and +I, staid and examined the witnesses, though amounting to little more than +a reproaching of Sir W. Batten. I home, my head and mind vexed about the +conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, though I have got, nor lost any ground +by it. At home was Mr. Daniel and wife and sister, and dined with us, +and I disturbed at dinner, Colonell Fitzgerald coming to me about +tallies, which I did go and give him, and then to the office, where did +much business and walked an hour or two with Lord Bruncker, who is +mightily concerned in this business for Carcasse and against Sir W. +Batten, and I do hope it will come to a good height, for I think it will +be good for the King as well as for me, that they two do not agree, +though I do, for ought I see yet, think that my Lord is for the most part +in the right. He gone, I to the office again to dispatch business, and +late at night comes in Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] J. Minnes +to the office, and what was it but to examine one Jones, a young +merchant, who was said to have spoke the worst against Sir W. Batten, but +he do deny it wholly, yet I do believe Carcasse will go near to prove all +that was sworn in the morning, and so it be true I wish it may. That +done, I to end my letters, and then home to supper, and set right some +accounts of Tangier, and then to bed. + + + +22nd. Up, and to the office, where I awhile, and then home with Sir H. +Cholmly to give him some tallies upon the business of the Mole at +Tangier, and then out with him by coach to the Excise Office, there to +enter them, and so back again with him to the Exchange, and there I took +another coach, and home to the office, and to my business till dinner, +the rest of our officers having been this morning upon the Victuallers' +accounts. At dinner all of us, that is to say, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. +Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] T. Harvy, and myself, to Sir W. Pen's +house, where some other company. It is instead of a wedding dinner for +his daughter, whom I saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet +that her servant had given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish. A +sorry dinner, not any thing handsome or clean, but some silver plates +they borrowed of me. My wife was here too. So a great deal of talk, and +I seemingly merry, but took no pleasure at all. We had favours given us +all, and we put them in our hats, I against my will, but that my Lord and +the rest did, I being displeased that he did carry Sir W. Coventry's +himself several days ago, and the people up and down the town long since, +and we must have them but to-day. After dinner to talk a little, and +then I away to my office, to draw up a letter of the state of the Office +and Navy for the Duke of York against Sunday next, and at it late, and +then home to supper and to bed, talking with my wife of the poorness and +meanness of all that Sir W. Pen and the people about us do, compared with +what we do. + + + +23rd. This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good +health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond +whatever my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. +The Lord's name be praised! and may I be ever thankful for it. Up +betimes to the office, in order to my letter to the Duke of York +to-morrow, and then the office met and spent the greatest part about this +letter. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again very close +at it all the day till midnight, making an end and writing fair this +great letter and other things to my full content, it abundantly providing +for the vindication of this office, whatever the success be of our wants +of money. This evening Sir W. Batten come to me to the office on +purpose, out of spleen (of which he is full to Carcasse !), to tell me +that he is now informed of many double tickets now found of Carcasses +making which quite overthrows him. It is strange to see how, though I do +believe this fellow to be a rogue, and could be contented to have him +removed, yet to see him persecuted by Sir W. Batten, who is as bad +himself, and that with so much rancour, I am almost the fellow's friend. +But this good I shall have from it, that the differences between Sir W. +Batten and my Lord Bruncker will do me no hurt. + + + +24th (Lord's day). Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten, by coach; he set me +down at my Lord Bruncker's (his feud there not suffering him to 'light +himself), and I with my Lord by and by when ready to White Hall, and by +and by up to the Duke of York, and there presented our great letter and +other papers, and among the rest my report of the victualling, which is +good, I think, and will continue my pretence to the place, which I am +still afeard Sir W. Coventry's employment may extinguish. We have +discharged ourselves in this letter fully from blame in the bad success +of the Navy, if money do not come soon to us, and so my heart is at +pretty good rest in this point. Having done here, Sir W. Batten and I +home by coach, and though the sermon at our church was begun, yet he +would 'light to go home and eat a slice of roast beef off the spit, and +did, and then he and I to church in the middle of the sermon. My Lady +Pen there saluted me with great content to tell me that her daughter and +husband are still in bed, as if the silly woman thought it a great matter +of honour, and did, going out of the church, ask me whether we did not +make a great show at Court today, with all our favours in our hats. +After sermon home, and alone with my wife dined. Among other things my +wife told me how ill a report our Mercer hath got by her keeping of +company, so that she will not send for her to dine with us or be with us +as heretofore; and, what is more strange, tells me that little Mis. +Tooker hath got a clap as young as she is, being brought up loosely by +her mother . . . . In the afternoon away to White Hall by water, and +took a turn or two in the Park, and then back to White Hall, and there +meeting my Lord Arlington, he, by I know not what kindness, offered to +carry me along with him to my Lord Treasurer's, whither, I told him, +I was going. I believe he had a mind to discourse of some Navy +businesses, but Sir Thomas Clifford coming into the coach to us, +we were prevented; which I was sorry for, for I had a mind to begin +an acquaintance with him. He speaks well, and hath pretty slight +superficial parts, I believe. He, in our going, talked much of the plain +habit of the Spaniards; how the King and Lords themselves wear but a +cloak of Colchester bayze, and the ladies mantles, in cold weather, of +white flannell: and that the endeavours frequently of setting up the +manufacture of making these stuffs there have only been prevented by the +Inquisition: the English and Dutchmen that have been sent for to work, +being taken with a Psalmbook or Testament, and so clapped up, and the +house pulled down by the Inquisitors; and the greatest Lord in Spayne +dare not say a word against it, if the word Inquisition be but mentioned. +At my Lord Treasurer's 'light and parted with them, they going into +Council, and I walked with Captain Cocke, who takes mighty notice of the +differences growing in our office between Lord Bruncker and [Sir] W. +Batten, and among others also, and I fear it may do us hurt, but I will +keep out of them. By and by comes Sir S. Fox, and he and I walked and +talked together on many things, but chiefly want of money, and the +straits the King brings himself and affairs into for want of it. Captain +Cocke did tell me what I must not forget: that the answer of the Dutch, +refusing The Hague for a place of treaty, and proposing the Boysse, +Bredah, Bergen-op-Zoome, or Mastricht, was seemingly stopped by the +Swede's Embassador (though he did show it to the King, but the King would +take no notice of it, nor does not) from being delivered to the King; and +he hath wrote to desire them to consider better of it: so that, though we +know their refusal of the place, yet they know not that we know it, nor +is the King obliged to show his sense of the affront. That the Dutch are +in very great straits, so as to be said to be not able to set out their +fleete this year. By and by comes Sir Robert Viner and my Lord Mayor to +ask the King's directions about measuring out the streets according to +the new Act for building of the City, wherein the King is to be pleased. + + [See Sir Christopher Wren's "Proposals for rebuilding the City of + London after the great fire, with an engraved Plan of the principal + Streets and Public Buildings," in Elmes's "Memoirs of Sir + Christopher Wren," Appendix, p.61. The originals are in All Souls' + College Library, Oxford.--B.] + +But he says that the way proposed in Parliament, by Colonel Birch, would +have been the best, to have chosen some persons in trust, and sold the +whole ground, and let it be sold again by them, with preference to the +old owner, which would have certainly caused the City to be built where +these Trustees pleased; whereas now, great differences will be, and the +streets built by fits, and not entire till all differences be decided. +This, as he tells it, I think would have been the best way. I enquired +about the Frenchman + + ["One Hubert, a French papist, was seized in Essex, as he was + getting out of the way in great confusion. He confessed he had + begun the fire, and persisted in his confession to his death, for he + was hanged upon no other evidence but that of his own confession. + It is true he gave so broken an account of the whole matter that he + was thought mad. Yet he was blindfolded, and carried to several + places of the city, and then his eyes being opened, he was asked if + that was the place, and he being carried to wrong places, after he + looked round about for some time, he said that was not the place, + but when he was brought to the place where it first broke out, he + affirmed that was the true place. "Burnet's Own Time, book ii. + Archbishop Tillotson, according to Burnet, believed that London was + burnt by design.] + +that was said to fire the City, and was hanged for it, by his own +confession, that he was hired for it by a Frenchman of Roane, and that he +did with a stick reach in a fire-ball in at a window of the house: +whereas the master of the house, who is the King's baker, and his son, +and daughter, do all swear there was no such window, and that the fire +did not begin thereabouts. Yet the fellow, who, though a mopish besotted +fellow, did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and +did not this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with +his keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very +house. Asking Sir R. Viner what he thought was the cause of the fire, +he tells me, that the baker, son, and his daughter, did all swear again +and again, that their oven was drawn by ten o'clock at night; that, +having occasion to light a candle about twelve, there was not so much +fire in the bakehouse as to light a match for a candle, so that they were +fain to go into another place to light it; that about two in the morning +they felt themselves almost choked with smoke, and rising, did find the +fire coming upstairs; so they rose to save themselves; but that, at that +time, the bavins--[brushwood, or faggots used for lighting fires]-- were +not on fire in the yard. So that they are, as they swear, in absolute +ignorance how this fire should come; which is a strange thing, that so +horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a beginning. By and +by called in to the King and Cabinet, and there had a few insipid words +about money for Tangier, but to no purpose. Thence away walked to my +boat at White Hall, and so home and to supper, and then to talk with W. +Hewer about business of the differences at present among the people of +our office, and so to my journall and to bed. This night going through +bridge by water, my waterman told me how the mistress of the Beare +tavern, at the bridge-foot, did lately fling herself into the Thames, and +drowned herself; which did trouble me the more, when they tell me it was +she that did live at the White Horse tavern in Lumbard Streete, which was +a most beautiful woman, as most I have seen. It seems she hath had long +melancholy upon her, and hath endeavoured to make away with herself +often. + + + +25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she +used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for +me, poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which I +ought for ever to love and admire her, and do; and persuade myself she +would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. So up and +by coach abroad to the Duke of Albemarle's about sending soldiers down to +some ships, and so home, calling at a belt-maker's to mend my belt, and +so home and to dinner, where pleasant with my wife, and then to the +office, where mighty busy all the day, saving going forth to the 'Change +to pay for some things, and on other occasions, and at my goldsmith's did +observe the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's +face as well done as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think: and a +pretty thing it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia +by. So at the office late very busy and much business with great joy +dispatched, and so home to supper and to bed. + + + +26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. And here did +receive another reference from Sir W. Coventry about the business of some +of the Muster-Masters, concerning whom I had returned their small +performances, which do give me a little more trouble for fear [Sir] W. +Coventry should think I had a design to favour my brother Balty, and to +that end to disparage all the rest. But I shall clear all very well, +only it do exercise my thoughts more than I am at leisure for. At home +find Balty and his wife very fine, which I did not like, for fear he do +spend too much of his money that way, and lay [not] up anything. After +dinner to the office again, where by and by Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. +Batten, [Sir] J. Minnes and I met about receiving Carcasses answers to +the depositions against him. Wherein I did see so much favour from my +Lord to him that I do again begin to see that my Lord is not right at the +bottom, and did make me the more earnest against him, though said little. +My Lord rising, declaring his judgement in his behalf, and going away, +I did hinder our arguing it by ourselves, and so broke up the meeting, +and myself went full of trouble to my office, there to write over the +deposition and his answers side by side, and then home to supper and to +bed with some trouble of mind to think of the issue of this, how it will +breed ill blood among us here. + + + +27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, it being bitter cold +weather again, after all our warm weather, and by water down to Woolwich +rope-yard, I being this day at a leisure, the King and Duke of York being +gone down to Sheerenesse this morning to lay out the design for a +fortification there to the river Medway; and so we do not attend the Duke +of York as we should otherwise have done, and there to the Dock Yard to +enquire of the state of things, and went into Mr. Pett's; and there, +beyond expectation, he did present me with a Japan cane, with a silver +head, and his wife sent me by him a ring, with a Woolwich stone; + + [Woolwich stones, still collected in that locality, are simply + waterworn pebbles of flint, which, when broken with a hammer, + exhibit on the smooth surface some resemblance to the human face; + and their possessors are thus enabled to trace likenesses of + friends, or eminent public characters. The late Mr. Tennant, the + geologist, of the Strand, had a collection of such stones. In the + British Museum is a nodule of globular or Egyptian jasper, which, in + its fracture, bears a striking resemblance to the well-known + portrait of Chaucer. It is engraved in Rymsdyk's "Museum + Britannicum," tab. xxviii. A flint, showing Mr. Pitt's face, used + once to be exhibited at the meetings of the Pitt Club.--B.] + +now much in request; which I accepted, the values not being great, and +knowing that I had done them courtesies, which he did own in very high +terms; and then, at my asking, did give me an old draught of an ancient- +built ship, given him by his father, of the Beare, in Queen Elizabeth's +time. This did much please me, it being a thing I much desired to have, +to shew the difference in the build of ships now and heretofore. Being +much taken with this kindness, I away to Blackwall and Deptford, to +satisfy myself there about the King's business, and then walked to +Redriffe, and so home about noon; there find Mr. Hunt, newly come out of +the country, who tells me the country is much impoverished by the +greatness of taxes: the farmers do break every day almost, and L1000 a- +year become not worth L500. [A tax rate of approximately that of New York +State in the year 2000. D.W.] He dined with us, and we had good +discourse of the general ill state of things, and, by the way, he told me +some ridiculous pieces of thrift of Sir G. Downing's, who is his +countryman, in inviting some poor people, at Christmas last, to charm the +country people's mouths; but did give them nothing but beef, porridge, +pudding, and pork, and nothing said all dinner, but only his mother would +say, "It's good broth, son." He would answer, "Yes, it is good broth." +Then, says his lady, Confirm all, and say, "Yes, very good broth." By +and by she would begin and say, "Good pork:"--"Yes," says the mother, +"good pork." Then he cries, "Yes, very good pork." And so they said of +all things; to which nobody made any answer, they going there not out of +love or esteem of them, but to eat his victuals, knowing him to be a +niggardly fellow; and with this he is jeered now all over the country. +This day just before dinner comes Captain Story, of Cambridge, to me to +the office, about a bill for prest money, + + [Money paid to men who enlist into the public service; press money. + So called because those who receive it are to be prest or ready when + called on ("Encyclopaedic Dictionary ").] + +for men sent out of the country and the countries about him to the fleete +the last year; but, Lord! to see the natures of men; how this man, +hearing of my name, did ask me of my country, and told me of my cozen +Roger, that he was not so wise a man as his father; for that he do not +agree in Parliament with his fellow burgesses and knights of the shire, +whereas I know very well the reason; for he is not so high a flyer as Mr. +Chichley and others, but loves the King better than any of them, and to +better purpose. But yet, he says that he is a very honest gentleman, and +thence runs into a hundred stories of his own services to the King, and +how he at this day brings in the taxes before anybody here thinks they +are collected: discourse very absurd to entertain a stranger with. He +being gone, and I glad of it, I home then to dinner. After dinner with +my wife by coach abroad, andset Mr. Hunt down at the Temple and her at +her brother's, and I to White Hall to meet [Sir] W. Coventry, but found +him not, but met Mr. Cooling, who tells me of my Lord Duke of Buckingham's +being sent for last night, by a Serjeant at Armes, to the Tower, for +treasonable practices, and that the King is infinitely angry with him, +and declared him no longer one of his Council. I know not the reason +of it, or occasion. To Westminster Hall, and there paid what I owed for +books, and so by coach, took up my wife to the Exchange, and there bought +things for Mrs. Pierces little daughter, my Valentine, and so to their +house, where we find Knipp, who also challengeth me for her Valentine. +She looks well, sang well, and very merry we were for half an hour. +Tells me Harris is well again, having been very ill, and so we home, +and I to the office; then, at night, to Sir W. Pen's, and sat with my +Lady, and the young couple (Sir William out of town) talking merrily; +but they make a very sorry couple, methinks, though rich. So late home +and to bed. + + + +28th. Up, and there comes to me Drumbleby with a flageolet, made to suit +with my former and brings me one Greeting, a master, to teach my wife. +I agree by the whole with him to teach her to take out any lesson of +herself for L4. She was not ready to begin to-day, but do to-morrow. +So I to the office, where my Lord Bruncker and I only all the morning, +and did business. At noon to the Exchange and to Sir Rob. Viner's about +settling my accounts there. So back home and to dinner, where Mr. +Holliard dined with us, and pleasant company he is. I love his company, +and he secures me against ever having the stone again. He gives it me, +as his opinion, that the City will never be built again together, as is +expected, while any restraint is laid upon them. He hath been a great +loser, and would be a builder again, but, he says, he knows not what +restrictions there will be, so as it is unsafe for him to begin. +He gone, I to the office, and there busy till night doing much business, +then home and to my accounts, wherein, beyond expectation, I succeeded so +well as to settle them very clear and plain, though by borrowing of +monies this month to pay D. Gawden, and chopping and changing with my +Tangier money, they were become somewhat intricate, and, blessed be God; +upon the evening my accounts, I do appear L6800 creditor: This done, I to +supper about 12 at night, and so to bed. The weather for three or four +days being come to be exceeding cold again as any time this year. I did +within these six days see smoke still remaining of the late fire in the +City; and it is strange to think how, to this very day, I cannot sleep at +night without great terrors of fire, and this very night I could not +sleep till almost two in the morning through thoughts of fire. Thus this +month is ended with great content of mind to me, thriving in my estate, +and the affairs in my offices going pretty well as to myself. This +afternoon Mr. Gawden was with me and tells me more than I knew before-- +that he hath orders to get all the victuals he can to Plymouth, and the +Western ports, and other outports, and some to Scotland, so that we do +intend to keep but a flying fleete this year; which, it may be, may +preserve us a year longer, but the end of it must be ruin. Sir J. Minnes +this night tells me, that he hears for certain, that ballads are made of +us in Holland for begging of a peace; which I expected, but am vexed at. +So ends this month, with nothing of weight upon my mind, but for my +father and mother, who are both very ill, and have been so for some +weeks: whom God help! but I do fear my poor father will hardly be ever +thoroughly well again. + + + + +ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: + +Being taken with a Psalmbook or Testament +Consider that this is all the pleasure I live for in the world +Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes +If the word Inquisition be but mentioned +King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish +Mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch +Musique in the morning to call up our new-married people +Must yet pay to the Poll Bill for this pension (unreceived) +New medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face +Not thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity +Only because she sees it is the fashion (She likes it) +Prince's being trepanned, which was in doing just as we passed +Proud that she shall come to trill +Receive the applications of people, and hath presents +Seems she hath had long melancholy upon her +Sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself +Sick of it and of him for it +The world do not grow old at all +Then home, and merry with my wife +Though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love him not +To my joy, I met not with any that have sped better than myself +Used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v57 +by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley + diff --git a/old/sp58g10.zip b/old/sp58g10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d1217a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/sp58g10.zip |