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  1. I to the office, where busy all the afternoon, late, and then home, and, after some pleasant discourse to my wife, to bed.
  2. Balty going away just now towards the fleete, where he will pass through one great engagement more before he be two days older, I believe.
  3. Up in very good health in every respect, only my late fever got by my pain do break out about my mouth.
  4. The Duke of Yorke said this day that by the letters from the Generals they would sail with the Fleete this day or to-morrow.
  5. I down the river to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way, and find it a fine writ play.
  6. I find the Bishop of Limericke the same good man as ever; kind to us, and one of the comeliest and most becoming prelates in all respects.
  7. The Duke of Yorke did say that he is come to a sure knowledge that the Dutch did lose twenty-nine captains and thirteen ships.
  8. Up in good case, and so by coach to St. James's, and there did our business, which is mostly every day to complain of want of money.
  9. After dinner believing the jogging in a coach would do me good, I did take my wife out to the New Exchange to buy things.
  10. Had a pretty good night of it, so as to be able to go to the office and there sat, but now and then in pain, and without making much water.
  11. Had twinges with the wind all the day in my belly. And a looseness with it, which however made it not so great as I have heretofore had it.
  12. Passed the day with Balty who is come for a day or two before the fight, and I perceive could be willing fairly to be out of the next fight.
  13. Lay in great pain in bed all the morning, being in much pain, making little or no water, and indeed having little within to make any with.
  14. A wonderful dark sky, and shower of rain this morning, which at Harwich proved so too with a shower of hail as big as walnuts.
  15. I was in mighty pain all night long of the winde griping of my belly and making of me shit often and vomit too, which is not usual with me.
  16. I drank to take away my heartburne but the way home I did break abundance of wind behind, which did presage but a great deal of cold gotten.
  17. Took up my wife and Betty Michell and her husband, to take the ayre, as far as beyond Hackny, in our way drinking a great deale of milke.
  18. Walked in great pain, having new shoes on, and got a coach, and so in some little ease home and there drank a great deale of small beer.
  19. To the Parke, and I lay down upon the grasse and was thinking of a lampoone, to make upon the late fight at sea, and the miscarriages there.
  20. There comes young Michell and his wife, whom my wife concurs with me to be a pretty woman, and with her husband is a pretty innocent couple.