ein. After
business done with the Duke, I home to the Coffee-house, and so home to
dinner, and after dinner to hang up my fine pictures in my dining room,
which makes it very pretty, and so my wife and I abroad to the King's
play-house, she giving me her time of the last month, she having not
seen any then; so my vowe is not broke at all, it costing me no more
money than it would have done upon her, had she gone both her times that
were due to her. Here we saw "Flora's Figarys." I never saw it before,
and by the most ingenuous performance of the young jade Flora, it seemed
as pretty a pleasant play as ever I saw in my life. So home to supper,
and then to my office late, Mr. Andrews and I to talk about our
victualling commission, and then he being gone I to set down my four
days past journalls and expenses, and so home to bed.

9th. Up, and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon
home, and there by appointment Mr. Blagrave came and dined with me, and
brought a friend of his of the Chappell with him. Very merry at dinner,
and then up to my chamber and there we sung a Psalm or two of Lawes's,
then he and I a little talke by ourselves of his kinswoman that is to
come to live with my wife, who is to come about ten days hence, and I
hope will do well. They gone I to my office, and there my head being a
little troubled with the little wine I drank, though mixed with beer,
but it may be a little more than I used to do, and yet I cannot say so,
I went home and spent the afternoon with my wife talking, and then in
the evening a little to my office, and so home to supper and to bed.
This day comes the newes that the Emperour hath beat the Turke;

[This was the battle of St. Gothard, in which the Turks were
defeated with great slaughter by the imperial forces under
Montecuculli, assisted by the confederates from the Rhine, and by
forty troops of French cavalry under Coligni. St. Gothard is in
Hungary, on the river Raab, near the frontier of Styria; it is about
one hundred and twenty miles south of Vienna, and thirty east of
Gratz. The battle took place on the 9th Moharrem, A.H. 1075, or
23rd July, A.D. 1664 (old style), which is that used by Pepys.--B.]

killed the Grand Vizier and several great Bassas, with an army of 80,000
men killed and routed; with some considerable loss of his own side,
having lost three generals, and the French forces all cut off almost.
Which is th