The Diary
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8th. Up, and my wife and I by coach to Bennett’s, in Paternoster Row, few shops there being yet open, and there bought velvet for a coat, and camlet for a cloake for myself; and thence to a place to look over some fine counterfeit damasks to hang my wife’s closet, and pitched upon one, and so by coach home again, I calling at the ’Change, and so home to dinner and all the afternoon look after my papers at home and my office against tomorrow, and so after supper and considering the uselessness of laying out so much money upon my wife’s closet, but only the chamber, to bed.