ull,
and there: saw the latter part of a rude prize fought, but with good
pleasure enough; and thence back to Islington, and at the King's Head,
where Pitts lived, we 'light and eat and drunk for remembrance of the
old house sake, and so through Kingsland again, and so to Bishopsgate,
and so home with great pleasure. The country mighty pleasant, and we
with great content home, and after supper to bed, only a little troubled
at the young ladies leaving my wife so to-day, and from some passages
fearing my Lady might be offended. But I hope the best.

26th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's, and coming a little too early, I
went and saw W. Joyce, and by and by comes in Anthony, they both owning
a great deal of kindness received from me in their late business, and
indeed I did what I could, and yet less I could not do. It has cost the
poor man above L40; besides, he is likely to lose his debt. Thence to my
Lord's, and by and by he comes down, and with him (Creed with us) I rode
in his coach to St. James's, talking about W. Joyce's business mighty
merry, and my Lady Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having
seen her drunk in the lobby of their House. I went up with him to the
Duke, where methought the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as
he was wont; and methought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the
Duke made no more of him, not that I know any thing of any unkindnesse,
but I think verily he is not as he was with him in his esteem. By and
by the Duke went out and we with him through the Parke, and there I left
him going into White Hall, and Creed and I walked round the Parke,
a pleasant walk, observing the birds, which is very pleasant; and so
walked to the New Exchange, and there had a most delicate dish of curds
and creame, and discourse with the good woman of the house, a discreet
well-bred woman, and a place with great delight I shall make it now and
then to go thither. Thence up, and after a turn or two in the 'Change,
home to the Old Exchange by coach, where great newes and true, I saw by
written letters, of strange fires seen at Amsterdam in the ayre, and not
only there, but in other places thereabout. The talke of a Dutch warr
is not so hot, but yet I fear it will come to it at last. So home and
to the office, where we sat late. My wife gone this afternoon to
the buriall of my she-cozen Scott, a good woman; and it is a sad
consideration how the Pepys's decay, and nobody almost that I know i