ren they have. They live methought at first in
but a plain way, but afterward I saw their dinner, all fish, brought in
very neatly, but the company being but bad I had no great pleasure in
it. After dinner I to the office, where we should have met upon business
extraordinary, but business not coming we broke up, and I thither again
and took my wife; and taking a coach, went to visit my Ladys Jemimah
and Paulina Montagu, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickering, whom we find at their
father's new house

[The Earl of Sandwich had just moved to a house in Lincoln's Inn
Fields. Elizabeth Dickering, who afterwards married John Creed, was
niece to Lord Sandwich.]

in Lincolne's Inn Fields; but the house all in dirt. They received us
well enough; but I did not endeavour to carry myself over familiarly
with them; and so after a little stay, there coming in presently after
us my Lady Aberguenny and other ladies, we back again by coach, and
visited, my wife did, my she cozen Scott, who is very ill still, and
thence to Jaggard's again, where a very good supper and great store of
plate; and above all after supper Mrs. Jaggard did at my entreaty play
on the Vyall, but so well as I did not think any woman in England could
and but few Maisters, I must confess it did mightily surprise me, though
I knew heretofore that she could play, but little thought so well. After
her I set Maes to singing, but he did it so like a coxcomb that I was
sick of him. About 11 at night I carried my aunt home by coach, and then
home myself, having set my wife down at home by the way. My aunt tells
me they are counted very rich people, worth at least 10 or L12,000, and
their country house all the yeare long and all things liveable, which
mightily surprises me to think for how poore a man I took him when I
did him the courtesy at our office. So after prayers to bed, pleased at
nothing all the day but Mrs. Jaggard playing on the Vyall, and that was
enough to make me bear with all the rest that did not content me.

20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
the 'Change with Mr. Coventry and thence home to dinner, after dinner by
a gaily down to Woolwich, where with Mr. Falconer, and then at the other
yard doing some business to my content, and so walked to Greenwich, it
being a very fine evening and brought right home with me by water, and
so to my office, where late doing business, and then home to supper and
to bed.

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