o the
Grange, and there sent the maid of the house into a room to her, and
she did what she had a mind to, and so back again to the play; and that
being done, in their coach I took them to Islington, and then, after
a walk in the fields, I took them to the great cheese-cake house and
entertained them, and so home, and after an hour's stay with my Lady,
their coach carried us home, and so weary to bed.

2nd. Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I walked to the Spittle an hour or
two before my Lord Mayor and the blewcoat boys come, which at last they
did, and a fine sight of charity it is indeed. We got places and staid
to hear a sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long, that
after above an hour of it we went away, and I home and dined; and then
my wife and I by water to the Opera, and there saw "The Bondman" most
excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never
liked it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora's part very well now
Roxalana is gone. We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide,
we having been three days together. Met Mr. Sanchy, Smithes; Gale, and
Edlin at the play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them
there. And so home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to
bed.

3rd. At home and at the office all day. At night to bed.

4th. By barge Sir George, Sir Williams both and I to Deptford, and there
fell to pay off the Drake and Hampshire, then to dinner, Sir George to
his lady at his house, and Sir Wm. Pen to Woolwich, and Sir W. Batten
and I to the tavern, where much company came to us and our dinner, and
somewhat short by reason of their taking part away with them. Then to
pay the rest of the Hampshire and the Paradox, and were at it till 9 at
night, and so by night home by barge safe, and took Tom Hater with some
that the clerks had to carry home along with us in the barge, the rest
staying behind to pay tickets, but came home after us that night. So
being come home, to bed. I was much troubled to-day to see a dead man
lie floating upon the waters, and had done (they say) these four days,
and nobody takes him up to bury him, which is very barbarous.

5th. At the office till almost noon, and then broke up. Then came Sir
G. Carteret, and he and I walked together alone in the garden, taking
notice of some faults in the office, particularly of Sir W. Batten's,
and he seemed to be much pleased with me, and I hope will be the ground
of a fut