me business, necessary, and so home and to bed, and by the help of
Mithrydate slept very well.

10th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and my wife dressed
herself, it being Easter day, but I not being so well as to go out, she,
though much against her will, staid at home with me; for she had put
on her new best gowns, which indeed is very fine now with the lace; and
this morning her taylor brought home her other new laced silks gowns
with a smaller lace, and new petticoats, I bought the other day both
very pretty. We spent the day in pleasant talks and company one with
another, reading in Dr. Fuller's book what he says of the family of the
Cliffords and Kingsmills, and at night being myself better than I was
by taking a glyster, which did carry away a great deal of wind, I after
supper at night went to bed and slept well.

11th. Lay long talking with my wife, then up and to my chamber preparing
papers against my father comes to lie here for discourse about country
business. Dined well with my wife at home, being myself not yet thorough
well, making water with some pain, but better than I was, and all my
fear of an ague gone away. In the afternoon my father came to see us,
and he gone I up to my morning's work again, and so in the evening a
little to the office and to see Sir W. Batten, who is ill again, and so
home to supper and to bed.

12th. Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new
laced gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I
carried her by coach to my uncle Wight's and set her down there, and W.
Howe and I to the Coffee-house, where we sat talking about getting of
him some place under my Lord of advantage if he should go to sea, and I
would be glad to get him secretary and to out Creed if I can, for he
is a crafty and false rogue. Thence a little to the 'Change, and thence
took him to my uncle Wight's, where dined my father, poor melancholy
man, that used to be as full of life as anybody, and also my aunt's
brother, Mr. Sutton, a merchant in Flanders, a very sober, fine man, and
Mr. Cole and his lady; but, Lord! how I used to adore that man's talke,
and now methinks he is but an ordinary man, his son a pretty boy indeed,
but his nose unhappily awry. Other good company and an indifferent,
and but indifferent dinner for so much company, and after dinner got
a coach, very dear, it being Easter time and very foul weather, to my
Lord's, and there visited my Lady,