was for him and her father. I do observe so much goodness and
seriousness in the mayde, that I am again and again sorry that I have
parted with her, though it was full against my will then, and if she had
anything in the world I would commend her for a wife for my brother
Tom. After much discourse and her professions of love to me and all my
relations, I bade her good night and did kiss her, and indeed she seemed
very well-favoured to me to-night, as she is always. So by coach home
and to my office, did some business, and so home to supper and to bed.

17th. This morning come Mr. Lee, Wade, and Evett, intending to have gone
upon our new design to the Tower today; but it raining, and the work
being to be done in the open garden, we put it off to Friday next. And
so I to the office doing business, and then dined at home with my poor
wife with great content, and so to the office again and made an end of
examining the other of Mr. Holland's books about the Navy, with which I
am much contented, and so to other businesses till night at my office,
and so home to supper, and after much dear company and talk with my
wife, to bed.

18th. Up and to the office, Mr. Coventry and I alone sat till two
o'clock, and then he inviting himself to my house to dinner, of which
I was proud; but my dinner being a legg of mutton and two capons, they
were not done enough, which did vex me; but we made shift to please
him, I think; but I was, when he was gone, very angry with my wife and
people. This afternoon came my wife's brother and his wife, and Mrs.
Lodum his landlady (my old friend Mr. Ashwell's sister), Balty's wife is
a most little and yet, I believe, pretty old girl, not handsome, nor has
anything in the world pleasing, but, they say, she plays mighty well on
the Base Violl. They dined at her father's today, but for ought I hear
he is a wise man, and will not give any thing to his daughter till he
sees what her husband do put himself to, so that I doubt he has made but
a bad matter of it, but I am resolved not to meddle with it. They gone I
to the office, and to see Sir W. Pen, with my wife, and thence I to Mr.
Cade the stationer, to direct him what to do with my two copies of Mr.
Holland's books which he is to bind, and after supplying myself with
several things of him, I returned to my office, and so home to supper
and to bed.

19th. Up and by appointment with Mr. Lee, Wade, Evett, and workmen
to the Tower, and with the Lieutenant'