The Diary
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8th. At the office all the morning. After office done, went and eat some Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some company; dined and stayed there talking all the afternoon; and late after dinner took Mrs. Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolic, to my great expense, and there showed her part of the Beggar’s Bush, without much pleasure, but only for a frolic, and so home again.