Diary, Jun/Jul/Aug 1661 | Page 5

he would have me have Mr. Turner's lodgings and himself
mine and Mr. Davis's. But the houses did not like us, and so that design
at present is stopped. Then he and I by water to the bridge, and then
walked over the Bank-side till we came to the Temple, and so I went
over and to my father's, where I met with my cozen J. Holcroft, and
took him and my father and my brother Tom to the Bear tavern and

gave them wine, my cozen being to go into the country again
to-morrow. From thence to my Lord Crew's to dinner with him, and
had very good discourse about having of young noblemen and
gentlemen to think of going to sea, as being as honourable service as
the land war. And among other things he told us how, in Queen
Elizabeth's time, one young nobleman would wait with a trencher at the
back of another till he came to age himself. And witnessed in my young
Lord of Kent, that then was, who waited upon my Lord Bedford at
table, when a letter came to my Lord Bedford that the Earldom of Kent
was fallen to his servant, the young Lord; and so he rose from table,
and made him sit down in his place, and took a lower for himself, for
so he was by place to sit. From thence to the Theatre and saw "Harry
the 4th," a good play. That done I went over the water and walked over
the fields to Southwark, and so home and to my lute. At night to bed.

5th. This morning did give my wife L4 to lay out upon lace and other
things for herself. I to Wardrobe and so to Whitehall and Westminster,
where I dined with my Lord and Ned Dickering alone at his lodgings.
After dinner to the office, where we sat and did business, and Sir W.
Pen and I went home with Sir R. Slingsby to bowls in his ally, and
there had good sport, and afterwards went in and drank and talked. So
home Sir William and I, and it being very hot weather I took my
flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen
came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and
singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo
["Botarga. The roe of the mullet pressed flat and dried; that of
commerce, however, is from the tunny, a large fish of passage which is
common in the Mediterranean. The best kind comes from Tunis."
--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book. Botargo was chiefly used to promote
drinking by causing thirst, and Rabelais makes Gargantua eat it.]
and bread and butter till 12 at night, it being moonshine; and so to bed,
very near fuddled.

6th. My head hath aked all night, and all this morning, with my last
night's debauch. Called up this morning by Lieutenant Lambert, who is
now made Captain of the Norwich, and he and I went down by water to
Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a

ship, he telling me all I asked him, which was of good use to me. There
we went and eat and drank and heard musique at the Globe, and saw
the simple motion that is there of a woman with a rod in her hand
keeping time to the musique while it plays, which is simple, methinks.
Back again by water, calling at Captain Lambert's house, which is very
handsome and neat, and a fine prospect at top. So to the office, where
we sat a little, and then the Captain and I again to Bridewell to Mr.
Holland's, where his wife also, a plain dowdy, and his mother was.
Here I paid Mrs. Holland the money due from me to her husband. Here
came two young gentlewomen to see Mr. Holland, and one of them
could play pretty well upon the viallin, but, good God! how these
ignorant people did cry her up for it! We were very merry. I staid and
supped there, and so home and to bed. The weather very hot, this night
I left off my wastecoat.

7th. To my Lord's at Whitehall, but not finding him I went to the
Wardrobe and there dined with my Lady, and was very kindly treated
by her. After dinner to the office, and there till late at night. So home,
and to Sir William Batten's, who is come this day from Chatham with
my Lady, who is and has been much troubled with the toothache. Here
I staid till late, and so home and to bed.

8th. To Whitehall to my Lord, who did tell me that he would