my wife by coach
to the Duke's house, and there saw "The German Princess" acted, by the
woman herself; but never was any thing so well done in earnest, worse
performed in jest upon the stage; and indeed the whole play, abating the
drollery of him that acts her husband, is very simple, unless here and
there a witty sprinkle or two. We met and sat by Dr. Clerke. Thence
homewards, calling at Madam Turner's, and thence set my wife down at
my aunt Wight's and I to my office till late, and then at to at night
fetched her home, and so again to my office a little, and then to supper
and to bed.

16th. Up and to the office, where all the morning upon the dispute of
Mr. Wood's masts, and at noon with Mr. Coventry to the African House;
and after a good and pleasant dinner, up with him, Sir W. Rider, the
simple Povy, of all the most ridiculous foole that ever I knew to
attend to business, and Creed and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's
accounts; but the more we look into them, the more we see of them that
makes dispute, which made us break off, and so I home, and there found
my wife and Besse gone over the water to Half-way house, and after them,
thinking to have gone to Woolwich, but it was too late, so eat a cake
and home, and thence by coach to have spoke with Tom Trice about a
letter I met with this afternoon from my cozen Scott, wherein he seems
to deny proceeding as my father's attorney in administering for him
in my brother Tom's estate, but I find him gone out of town, and so
returned vexed home and to the office, where late writing a letter to
him, and so home and to bed.

17th (Lord's day). Up, and I put on my best cloth black suit and my
velvet cloake, and with my wife in her best laced suit to church, where
we have not been these nine or ten weeks. The truth is, my jealousy hath
hindered it, for fear she should see Pembleton. He was here to-day, but
I think sat so as he could not see her, which did please me, God help
me! mightily, though I know well enough that in reason this is nothing
but my ridiculous folly. Home to dinner, and in the afternoon, after
long consulting whether to go to Woolwich or no to see Mr. Falconer, but
indeed to prevent my wife going to church, I did however go to church
with her, where a young simple fellow did preach: I slept soundly all
the sermon, and thence to Sir W. Pen's, my wife and I, there she talking
with him and his daughter, and thence with my wife walked to my uncle
Wight's