I had not the boldness to go to her.  So there I slept an hour or two.  At last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and saw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more.  So at last I left her there and went to my company.  About 8 o’clock I went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and in the chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that belong to one of our ships.  Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we all bid adieu to the shore.  But through badness of weather we were in great danger, and a great while before we could get to the ship, so that of all the company not one but myself that was not sick.  I keeping myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it.  This hath not been known four days together such weather at this time of year, a great while.  Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found all well, and Mr. Thos.  Crew came on board.  I having spoke a word or two with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly through last night’s drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept till the 4 o’clock gun the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at night, and rising . . . mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on Sunday night.

21st.  So into my naked bed

[This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once
universal.  It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in
bed without any nightlinen.

              “Who sees his true love in her naked bed,
               Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white.”

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.

Nares ("Glossary”) notes the expression so late as in the very odd novel by T. Amory, called “John Bunde,” where a young lady declares, after an alarm, “that she would never go into naked bed on board ship again.”  Octavo edition, vol. i. p. 90.]

and slept till 9 o’clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the captain’s boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.—­[Apparently Mallows stands for St. Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]—­The weather foul all this day also.  After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my papers in order, having been so long absent.  At night Mr. Pierce, Purser (the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped with me, and then I went to bed.  By letters that came hither in my absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be secured,