at the Hague incognita, that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier’s) wife that had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus.  At supper the three Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned, that children do, in every day’s experience, look several ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise.  And that we do now see but with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines.  After this discourse I was called to write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I wrote in the King’s name,—­[This right of purveyance was abolished in Charles’s reign.]—­and carried it to him to sign, which was the first and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles.  To bed, coming in sight of land a little before night.

25th.  By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body made ready to get on shore.  The King and the two Dukes did eat their breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship’s diet before them, only to show them the manner of the ship’s diet, they eat of nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef.  I had Mr. Darcy in my cabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given L50 to Mr. Sheply for my Lord’s servants, and L500 among the officers and common men of the ship.  I spoke with the Duke of York about business, who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me his future favour.  Great expectation of the King’s making some Knights, but there was none.  About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made was there ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord’s barge with the two Dukes.  Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare with him.  I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King’s footmen, with a dog that the King loved,

[Charles ii.’s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him.  In the “Mercurius Publicus,” June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself:  “We must call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his tayl a little bobbed.  It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would never forsake His master.  Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole him.  Will they never leave robbing his Majesty!  Must he not keep a Dog?  This dog’s place (though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg.” (Quoted in “Notes and Queries,” 7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of Charles’s lost dogs.)]

(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by ourselves, and