The Diary
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3rd. Up among my workmen, my head aching all day from last night’s debauch. To the office all the morning, and at noon dined with Sir W. Batten and Penn, who would needs have me drink two draughts of sack today to cure me of last night’s disease, which I thought strange but I think find it true. Then home with my workmen all the afternoon, at night into the garden to play on my flageolet, it being moonshine, where I stayed a good while, and so home and to bed. This day I hear that the Dutch have sent the King a great present of money, which we think will stop the match with Portugal; and judge this to be the reason that our so great haste in sending the two ships to the East Indies is also stayed.