greatness of command and repute only by the death
of all his officers, he many times having the luck of being the only
survivor of them all, by venturing upon services for the King of France
that nobody else would; and yet no man upon a defence, he being all fury
and no judgment in a fight. He tells me above all of the Duke of Yorke,
that he is more himself and more of judgement is at hand in him in the
middle of a desperate service, than at other times, as appeared in the
business of Dunkirke, wherein no man ever did braver things, or was in
hotter service in the close of that day, being surrounded with enemies;
and then, contrary to the advice of all about him, his counsel carried
himself and the rest through them safe, by advising that he might make
his passage with but a dozen with him; "For," says he, "the enemy cannot
move after me so fast with a great body, and with a small one we shall
be enough to deal with them;" and though he is a man naturally martiall
to the highest degree, yet a man that never in his life talks one word
of himself or service of his owne, but only that he saw such or such a
thing, and lays it down for a maxime that a Hector can have no courage.
He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that the Prince of
Condo's excellence is, that there not being a more furious man in the
world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him
civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and
men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or spirit.

5th (Lord's day). About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds
to come to my wife who is very ill. I rose, and from some cold she got
to-day, or from something else, she is taken with great gripings, a
looseness, and vomiting. I lay a while by her upon the bed, she being
in great pain, poor wretch, but that being a little over I to bed again,
and lay, and then up and to my office all the morning, setting matters
to rights in some accounts and papers, and then to dinner, whither
Mr. Shepley, late come to town, came to me, and after dinner and
some pleasant discourse he went his way, being to go out of town
to Huntington again to-morrow. So all the afternoon with my wife
discoursing and talking, and in the evening to my office doing business,
and then home to supper and to bed.

6th. Up and found my wife very ill again, which troubles me, but I was
forced to go forth. So by water with Mr. Gauden an