assurance of all his scouts that there was no enemy thereabouts; whereas he used every day to go out with two or three with him, to make his discoveries, in greater danger, and yet the man that could not endure to have anybody else to go a step out of order to endanger himself.  He concludes him to be the man of the hardest fate to lose so much honour at one blow that ever was.  His relation being done he parted; and so I home to look after things for dinner.  And anon at noon comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by and by the three young ladies:—­[Lord Sandwich’s daughters.]—­and very merry we were with our pasty, very well baked; and a good dish of roasted chickens; pease, lobsters, strawberries.  And after dinner to cards:  and about five o’clock, by water down to Greenwich; and up to the top of the hill, and there played upon the ground at cards.  And so to the Cherry Garden, and then by water singing finely to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again, and to Somersett House.  And by this time, the tide being against us, it was past ten of the clock; and such a troublesome passage, in regard of my Lady Paulina’s fearfullness, that in all my life I never did see any poor wretch in that condition.  Being come hither, there waited for them their coach; but it being so late, I doubted what to do how to get them home.  After half an hour’s stay in the street, I sent my wife home by coach with Mr. Creed’s boy; and myself and Creed in the coach home with them.  But, Lord! the fear that my Lady Paulina was in every step of the way; and indeed at this time of the night it was no safe thing to go that road; so that I was even afeard myself, though I appeared otherwise.—­We came safe, however, to their house, where all were abed; we knocked them up, my Lady and all the family being in bed.  So put them into doors; and leaving them with the mayds, bade them good night, and then into the towne, Creed and I, it being about twelve o’clock and past; and to several houses, inns, but could get no lodging, all being in bed.  At the last house, at last, we found some people drinking and roaring; and there got in, and after drinking, got an ill bed, where

16th.  I lay in my drawers and stockings and wastecoate till five of the clock, and so up; and being well pleased with our frolique, walked to Knightsbridge, and there eat a messe of creame, and so to St. James’s, and there walked a little, and so I to White Hall, and took coach, and found my wife well got home last night, and now in bed.  So I to the office, where all the morning, and at noon to the ’Change, so home and to my office, where Mr. Ackworth came to me (though he knows himself and I know him to be a very knave), yet he came to me to discover the knavery of other people like the most honest man in the world.  However, good use I shall make of his discourse, for in this he is much in the right.  He being gone I to the ’Change, Mr. Creed with me, after we had been by water to see a vessell we have hired