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  1. For which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!
  2. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave.
  3. If there be any thing, which cannot be much, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open to add, here and there, a note in short-hand.
  4. I resolve to have my journal kept by my people in long-hand and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for all the world to know.
  5. I having kept my journal so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; whatever comes of it, I must forbear.
  6. And thus ends all that I doubt I shall be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any longer.
  7. To "The World's End," a drinking-house by the Park; and there merry, and so home.
  8. Being called by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend of hers, being with us.
  9. Had another meeting with the Duke of York, at White Hall, on yesterday's work, and made a good advance.
  10. Calling at Michell's, here je did baiser elle, but had not opportunity para hazer some with her as I would have offered if je had had it.
  11. The ill condition of my eyes, and my neglect for a year or two, hath kept me behindhand in my accounts, so as to render it difficult now.
  12. Continued all the morning with W. Hewer, upon examining and stating my accounts, in order to the fitting myself to go abroad beyond sea.
  13. Called by my wife, Mr. Gibson and I, we to the Park, whence the rain sent us suddenly home.
  14. The Duke of York made a good entrance on my draught of my Instructions to Commanders, as well expressing views of a reformation among them.
  15. I had my full gaze upon Mrs. Wells, to my great content, she being a woman of pretty conversation.
  16. Dined with Mr. Chevins his sister: by and by come in Mr. Progers and Sir Thomas Allen, and by and by fine Mrs. Wells, who is a great beauty.
  17. By water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, where all the morning by his bed-side, he being indisposed.
  18. To Hyde Park; great store of company, and preparations by the Prince of Tuscany to celebrate with fire-works, for the King's birth-day.
  19. I heard the Bishop of Peterborough preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham's.
  20. To White Hall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning.