e ring she hath
made lately as my Valentine's gift this year, a Turky stone' set with
diamonds: and, with this and what she had, she reckons that she hath
above L150 worth of jewells, of one kind or other; and I am glad of it,
for it is fit the wretch should have something to content herself with.

24th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning, entering my
journal for the three days past. Thence about noon with my wife to the
New Exchange, by the way stopping at my bookseller's, and there leaving
my Kircher's Musurgia to be bound, and did buy "L'illustre Bassa," in
four volumes, for my wife. Thence to the Exchange and left her; while
meeting Dr. Gibbons there, he and I to see an organ at the Dean of
Westminster's lodgings at the Abby, the Bishop of Rochester's; where
he lives like a great prelate, his lodgings being very good; though at
present under great disgrace at Court, being put by his Clerk of the
Closet's place. I saw his lady, of whom the 'Terrae Filius' of Oxford
was once so merry;

[A scholar appointed to make a satirical and jesting speech at an
Act in the University of Oxford. Mr. Christopher Wordsworth gives,
in his "Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth
Century," 1874, a list of terra-filii from 1591 to 1713 (pp. 296-
298, 680). The 'terrae filius' was sometimes expelled the
university on account of the licence of his speech. The practice
was discontinued early in the eighteenth century.]

and two children, whereof one a very pretty little boy, like him, so fat
and black. Here I saw the organ; but it is too big for my house, and the
fashion do not please me enough; and therefore will not have it. Thence
to the 'Change back again, leaving him, and took my wife and Deb.
home, and there to dinner alone, and after dinner I took them to the
Nursery,--[Theatre company of young actors in training.]--where none of
us ever were before; where the house is better and the musique better
than we looked for, and the acting not much worse, because I expected as
bad as could be: and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. However,
I was pleased well to see it once, it being worth a man's seeing to
discover the different ability and understanding of people, and the
different growth of people's abilities by practise. Their play was a
bad one, called "Jeronimo is Mad Again," a tragedy. Here was some good
company by us, who did make mighty sport at the folly