se that we used to have, only
after dinner, being alone, she asked me my opinion about Creed, whether
he would have a wife or no, and what he was worth, and proposed Mrs.
Wright for him, which, she says, she heard he was once inquiring after.
She desired I would take a good time and manner of proposing it, and
I said I would, though I believed he would love nothing but money, and
much was not to be expected there, she said. So away back to Clerkenwell
Church, thinking to have got sight of la belle Boteler again, but
failed, and so after church walked all over the fields home, and there
my wife was angry with me for not coming home, and for gadding abroad
to look after beauties, she told me plainly, so I made all peace, and
to supper. This evening came Mrs. Lane (now Martin) with her husband to
desire my helpe about a place for him. It seems poor Mr. Daniel is dead
of the Victualling Office, a place too good for this puppy to follow him
in. But I did give him the best words I could, and so after drinking a
glasse of wine sent them going, but with great kindnesse. Go to supper,
prayers, and to bed.

3rd. Up with Sir J. Minnes, by coach, to St. James's; and there all the
newes now of very hot preparations for the Dutch: and being with the
Duke, he told us he was resolved to make a tripp himself, and that Sir
W. Pen should go in the same ship with him. Which honour, God forgive
me! I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I
do not envy much the having the same place myself. Talke also of great
haste in the getting out another fleete, and building some ships; and
now it is likely we have put one another by each other's dalliance past
a retreate. Thence with our heads full of business we broke up, and I to
my barber's, and there only saw Jane and stroked her under the chin, and
away to the Exchange, and there long about several businesses, hoping to
get money by them, and thence home to dinner and there found Hawly. But
meeting Bagwell's wife at the office before I went home I took her
into the office and there kissed her only. She rebuked me for doing it,
saying that did I do so much to many bodies else it would be a stain to
me. But I do not see but she takes it well enough, though in the main I
believe she is very honest. So after some kind discourse we parted, and
I home to dinner, and after dinner down to Deptford, where I found Mr.
Coventry, and there we made, an experiment of Holland's and our corda