y by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way,
where I like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for
a further degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a
horrible rage afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did
fall to revile me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not
refrain to strike me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with,
and had good reason to bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail
with her a little to be quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without
me; but yet by and by into a raging fit she fell again, worse than
before, that she would slit the girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come
in and come up, who did allay her fury, I flinging myself, in a sad
desperate condition, upon the bed in the blue room, and there lay while
they spoke together; and at last it come to this, that if I would call
Deb. whore under my hand and write to her that I hated her, and would
never see her more, she would believe me and trust in me, which I
did agree to, only as to the name of whore I would have excused, and
therefore wrote to her sparing that word, which my wife thereupon tore
it, and would not be satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon me, I did
write so with the name of a whore as that I did fear she might too
probably have been prevailed upon to have been a whore by her carriage
to me, and therefore as such I did resolve never to see her more. This
pleased my wife, and she gives it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp
message from her. So from that minute my wife begun to be kind to me,
and we to kiss and be friends, and so continued all the evening, and
fell to talk of other matters, with great comfort, and after supper
to bed. This evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's
alterations of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to
the Board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only
in mollifying some hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From
this to other discourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his
master, Mr. Wren, do look upon this service of mine as a very seasonable
service to the Duke of York, as that which he will have to shew to his
enemies in his own justification, of his care of the King's business;
and I am sure I am heartily glad of it, both for the King's sake and the
Duke of York's, and my own also; for, if I continue, my work, by this
means, will be the less,