them very respectful answer and so went away to the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of “The Mayd’s Tragedy,” which I never saw before, and methinks it is too sad and melancholy.  Thence homewards, and meeting Mr. Creed I took him by water to the Wardrobe with me, and there we found my Lord newly gone away with the Duke of Ormond and some others, whom he had had to the collation; and so we, with the rest of the servants in the hall, sat down and eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life.  From thence I went home (Mr. Moore with me to the waterside, telling me how kindly he is used by my Lord and my Lady since his coming hither as a servant), and to bed.

17th.  All the morning at home.  At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes and whistle like a bird exceeding well, and I had a fancy to learn to whistle as he do, and did promise to come some other day and give him an angell to teach me.  To the office, and sat there all the afternoon till 9 at night.  So home to my musique, and my wife and I sat singing in my chamber a good while together, and then to bed.

18th.  Towards Westminster, from the Towre, by water, and was fain to stand upon one of the piers about the bridge,

     [The dangers of shooting the bridge were so great that a popular
     proverb has it—­London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and
     fools to go under.]

before the men could drag their boat through the lock, and which they could not do till another was called to help them.  Being through bridge I found the Thames full of boats and gallys, and upon inquiry found that there was a wager to be run this morning.  So spying of Payne in a gully, I went into him, and there staid, thinking to have gone to Chelsy with them.  But upon, the start, the wager boats fell foul one of another, till at last one of them gives over, pretending foul play, and so the other row away alone, and all our sport lost.  So, I went ashore, at Westminster; and to the Hall I went, where it was very pleasant to see the Hall in the condition it is now with the judges on the benches at the further end of it, which I had not seen all this term till now.  Thence with Mr. Spicer, Creed and some others to drink.  And so away homewards by water with Mr. Creed, whom I left in London going about business and I home, where I staid all the afternoon in the garden reading “Faber Fortunae” with great pleasure.  So home to bed.

19th. (Lord’s day) I walked in the morning towards Westminster, and seeing many people at York House, I went down and found them at mass, it being the Spanish ambassodors; and so I go into one of the gallerys, and there heard two masses done, I think, not in so much state as I have seen them heretofore.  After that into the garden, and walked a turn or two, but found it not so fine a place as I always took