ee; where, among other things,
speaking about propriety of the houses there, and how we ought to let
the Portugeses I have right done them, as many of them as continue, or
did sell the houses while they were in possession, and something further
in their favour, the Duke in an anger I never observed in him before,
did cry, says he, "All the world rides us, and I think we shall never
ride anybody." Thence home, and, though late, yet Pedro being there, he
sang a song and parted. I did give him 5s., but find it burdensome and
so will break up the meeting. At night is brought home our poor Fancy,
which to my great grief continues lame still, so that I wish she had not
been brought ever home again, for it troubles me to see her.

13th. Up, and before I went to the office comes my Taylor with a coate
I have made to wear within doors, purposely to come no lower than my
knees, for by my wearing a gowne within doors comes all my tenderness
about my legs. There comes also Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and
scotoscope.

[An optical instrument used to enable objects to be seen in the
dark. The name is derived from the Greek.]

For the first I did give him L5 10s., a great price, but a most curious
bauble it is, and he says, as good, nay, the best he knows in England,
and he makes the best in the world. The other he gives me, and is of
value; and a curious curiosity it is to look objects in a darke room
with. Mightly pleased with this I to the office, where all the morning.
There offered by Sir W. Pen his coach to go to Epsum and carry my wife,
I stept out and bade my wife make her ready, but being not very well and
other things advising me to the contrary, I did forbear going, and so
Mr. Creed dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this
afternoon, lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have
found now once, to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised I
swear, and to the new play, at the Duke's house, of "Henry the Fifth;" a
most noble play, writ by my Lord Orrery; wherein Betterton, Harris, and
Ianthe's parts are most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole
play the most full of height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever
I heard; having but one incongruity, or what did, not please me in it,
that is, that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse,
Princesse Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems
to do; and Tudor refused by her with some k