eld to have done a very great service: whereas now,
all that cost the King hath been at for his journey through Spain
thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I walked
together, and did talk a good while of the weak report my Lord made, and
were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind and judgment are
depressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and so my fear
that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. So I staid about
the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had it at
Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. And so to the
Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but
the former was gone, and the latter I met going out, but nothing done,
and so I to my bookseller's, and also to Crow's, and there saw a piece
of my bed, and I find it will please us mightily. So home, and there
find my wife troubled, and I sat with her talking, and so to bed, and
there very unquiet all night.
10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will
rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me
see the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so
home to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more
than ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and
getting a confession now from her of all.... which do mightily trouble
me, as not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our
future peace together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I
would dine in her chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as
much as I could we were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr.
Hollier, and dines there by himself after we had dined, and he being
gone, we to talk again, and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my
unkindness and perjury, I having denied my ever kissing her. As also
with all her old kindnesses to me, and my ill-using of her from the
beginning, and the many temptations she hath refused out of faithfulness
to me, whereof several she was particular in, and especially from
my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitation of Captain Ferrers, and then
afterward the courtship of my Lord Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble
of his lady. All which I did acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept,
and at last pretty good friends again, and so I to my office, and
there late, and so home to supper with her, and so to bed, where after
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