and is like to prove a noble Prince; and so indeed
I do from my heart think he will. He says that
it is believed, as well as hoped, that care is taken
to lay up a hidden treasure of money by the King against
a bad day, pray God it be so! but I should be more
glad that the King himself would look after business,
which it seems he do not in the least. By and
by came by Mr. Coventry, and so we broke off; and he
and I took a turn or two and so parted, and then my
Lord Sandwich came upon me, to speak with whom my
business of coming again to-night to this ende of
the town chiefly was, in order to the seeing in what
manner he received me, in order to my inviting him
to dinner to my house, but as well in the morning
as now, though I did wait upon him home and there offered
occasion of talk with him, yet he treated me, though
with respect, yet as a stranger, without any of the
intimacy or friendship which he used to do, and which
I fear he will never, through his consciousness of
his faults, ever do again. Which I must confess
do trouble me above anything in the world almost,
though I neither do need at present nor fear to need
to be so troubled, nay, and more, though I do not
think that he would deny me any friendship now if
I did need it, but only that he has not the face to
be free with me, but do look upon me as a remembrancer
of his former vanity, and an espy upon his present
practices, for I perceive that Pickering to-day is
great with him again, and that he has done a great
courtesy for Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, to a good
value, though both these and none but these did I
mention by name to my Lord in the business which has
caused all this difference between my Lord and me.
However, I am resolved to forbear my laying out my
money upon a dinner till I see him in a better posture,
and by grave and humble, though high deportment, to
make him think I do not want him, and that will make
him the readier to admit me to his friendship again,
I believe the soonest of anything but downright impudence,
and thrusting myself, as others do, upon him, which
yet I cannot do, not [nor] will not endeavour.
So home, calling with my wife to see my brother again,
who was up, and walks up and down the house pretty
well, but I do think he is in a consumption.
Home, troubled in mind for these passages with my
Lord, but am resolved to better my case in my business
to make my stand upon my owne legs the better and to
lay up as well as to get money, and among other ways
I will have a good fleece out of Creed’s coat
ere it be long, or I will have a fall. So to
my office and did some business, and then home to
supper and to bed, after I had by candlelight shaved
myself and cut off all my beard clear, which will make
my worke a great deal the less in shaving.