home, for they have an implacable desire
to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay
it upon Brouncker. Having given them good satisfaction I away thence,
up and down, wanting a little to see whether I could get Mrs. Burroughes
out, but elle being in the shop ego did speak con her much, she could
not then go far, and so I took coach and away to Unthanke's, and there
took up my wife and Deb., and to the Park, where, being in a hackney,
and they undressed, was ashamed to go into the tour, but went round
the park, and so with pleasure home, where Mr. Pelting come and sat and
talked late with us, and he being gone, I called Deb. to take pen, ink,
and paper and write down what things come into my head for my wife to
do in order to her going into the country, and the girl, writing not
so well as she would do, cried, and her mistress construed it to
be sullenness, and so away angry with her too, but going to bed she
undressed me, and there I did give her good advice and baiser la, elle
weeping still.

APRIL 1668

April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and
dress me..., and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then out to
bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country to-morrow,
and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy
getting her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her
looking after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out
and all alone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to
hide myself, and saw "The Black Prince," a very good play; but only the
fancy, most of it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays;
but the dance very stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after
dinner and with no company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had
seen, and went to now not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall
asleep the former part of the play, but afterward did mind it and like
it very well. Thence called at my bookseller's, and took Mr. Boyle's
Book of Formes, newly reprinted, and sent my brother my old one. So
home, and there to my chamber till anon comes Mr. Turner and his wife
and daughter, and Pelting, to sup with us and talk of my wife's journey
to-morrow, her daughter going with my wife; and after supper to talk
with her husband about the Office, and his place, which, by Sir J.
Minnes's age and inability, is very uncomfortable to him, as well as
w