ile. Thence home,
where I found that Sarah the maid had been very ill all day, and my wife
fears that she will have an ague, which I am much troubled for. Thence
to my lute, upon which I have not played a week or two, and trying over
the two songs of "Nulla, nulla," &c., and "Gaze not on Swans," which Mr.
Berkenshaw set for me a little while ago, I find them most incomparable
songs as he has set them, of which I am not a little proud, because I
am sure none in the world has them but myself, not so much as he himself
that set them. So to bed.

15th. With Sir G. Carteret and both the Sir Williams at Whitehall to
wait on the Duke in his chamber, which we did about getting money for
the Navy and other things. So back again to the office all the morning.
Thence to the Exchange to hire a ship for the Maderas, but could get
none. Then home to dinner, and Sir G. Carteret and I all the afternoon
by ourselves upon business in the office till late at night. So to write
letters and home to bed. Troubled at my maid's being ill.

16th (Lord's day). This morning, till churches were done, I spent going
from one church to another and hearing a bit here and a bit there. So
to the Wardrobe to dinner with the young Ladies, and then into my Lady's
chamber and talked with her a good while, and so walked to White Hall,
an hour or two in the Park, which is now very pleasant. Here the King
and Duke came to see their fowl play. The Duke took very civil notice of
me. So walked home, calling at Tom's, giving him my resolution about
my boy's livery. Here I spent an hour walking in the garden with Sir W.
Pen, and then my wife and I thither to supper, where his son William is
at home not well. But all things, I fear, do not go well with them; they
look discontentedly, but I know not what ails them. Drinking of cold
small beer here I fell ill, and was forced to go out and vomit, and so
was well again and went home by and by to bed. Fearing that Sarah would
continue ill, wife and I removed this night to our matted chamber and
lay there.

17th. All the morning at the office by myself about setting things in
order there, and so at noon to the Exchange to see and be seen, and so
home to dinner and then to the office again till night, and then home
and after supper and reading a while to bed. Last night the Blackmore
pink

[A "pink" was a form of vessel now obsolete, and had a very narrow
stern. The "Blackmoor" was a sixth-rate of twelve guns