The Diary
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15th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Here my Lord Brouncker would have made me promise to go with him to a play this afternoon, where Knipp acts Mrs. Weaver’s great part in The Indian Emperour, and he says is coming on to be a great actor. But I am so fell to my business, that I, though against my inclination, will not go. At noon, dined with my wife and were pleasant, and then to the office, where I got Mrs. Burroughs sola cum ego, and did toucher ses mamelles.⁠ ⁠… She gone, I to my business and did much, and among other things tonight we were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of a great deal of hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods tomorrow at the candle by the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we shall be found to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices, and perhaps the very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and a shame. At night home to supper and to bed with my mind mighty light to see the fruits of my diligence in having my business go off my hand so merrily.