hing, and that she is with child and undone, if I
do not get him a place. I had my pleasure here of her, and she, like an
impudent jade, depends upon my kindness to her husband, but I will have
no more to do with her, let her brew as she has baked, seeing she would
not take my counsel about Hawly. After drinking we parted, and I to
Blagrave's, and there discoursed with Mrs. Blagrave about her kinswoman,
who it seems is sickly even to frantiqueness sometimes, and among
other things chiefly from love and melancholy upon the death of her
servant,--[Servant = lover.]--insomuch that she telling us all most
simply and innocently I fear she will not be able to come to us with any
pleasure, which I am sorry for, for I think she would have pleased us
very well. In comes he, and so to sing a song and his niece with us,
but she sings very meanly. So through the Hall and thence by coach home,
calling by the way at Charing Crosse, and there saw the great Dutchman
that is come over, under whose arm I went with my hat on, and could not
reach higher than his eye-browes with the tip of my fingers, reaching as
high as I could. He is a comely and well-made man, and his wife a very
little, but pretty comely Dutch woman. It is true, he wears pretty
high-heeled shoes, but not very high, and do generally wear a turbant,
which makes him show yet taller than really he is, though he is very
tall, as I have said before. Home to my office, and then to supper, and
then to my office again late, and so home to bed, my wife and I troubled
that we do not speed better in this business of her woman.

16th. Wakened about two o'clock this morning with the noise of thunder,
which lasted for an houre, with such continued lightnings, not flashes,
but flames, that all the sky and ayre was light; and that for a great
while, not a minute's space between new flames all the time; such a
thing as I never did see, nor could have believed had ever been in
nature. And being put into a great sweat with it, could not sleep till
all was over. And that accompanied with such a storm of rain as I never
heard in my life. I expected to find my house in the morning overflowed
with the rain breaking in, and that much hurt must needs have been done
in the city with this lightning; but I find not one drop of rain in my
house, nor any newes of hurt done. But it seems it has been here and
all up and down the countrie hereabouts the like tempest, Sir W. Batten
saying much of the grea