and at last
she is come to be willing to stay two months in the country, for it is
her unwillingness to stay till the house is quite done that makes me at
a loss how to have her go or stay. But that which troubles me most is
that it has rained all this morning so furiously that I fear my house is
all over water, and with that expectation I rose and went into my house
and find that it is as wet as the open street, and that there is not one
dry-footing above nor below in my house. So I fitted myself for dirt,
and removed all my books to the office and all day putting up and
restoring things, it raining all day long as hard within doors as
without. At last to dinner, we had a calf's head and bacon at my chamber
at Sir W. Pen's, and there I and my wife concluded to have her go and
her two maids and the boy, and so there shall be none but Will and I
left at home, and so the house will be freer, for it is impossible to
have anybody come into my house while it is in this condition, and
with this resolution all the afternoon we were putting up things in the
further cellar against next week for them to be gone, and my wife and I
into the office and there measured a soiled flag that I had found there,
and hope to get it to myself, for it has not been demanded since I came
to the office. But my wife is not hasty to have it, but rather to stay a
while longer and see the event whether it will be missed or no. At night
to my office, and there put down this day's passages in my journall, and
read my oaths, as I am obliged every Lord's day. And so to Sir W. Pen's
to my chamber again, being all in dirt and foul, and in fear of having
catched cold today with dabbling in the water. But what has vexed me
to-day was that by carrying the key to Sir W. Pen's last night, it could
not in the midst of all my hurry to carry away my books and things, be
found, and at last they found it in the fire that we made last night. So
to bed.

21st. Up early, and though I found myself out of order and cold, and the
weather cold and likely to rain, yet upon my promise and desire to
do what I intended, I did take boat and down to Greenwich, to Captain
Cocke's, who hath a most pleasant seat, and neat. Here I drank wine, and
eat some fruit off the trees; and he showed a great rarity, which was
two or three of a great number of silver dishes and plates, which he
bought of an embassador that did lack money, in the edge or rim of which
was placed silver and gold m