The Diary
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30th. At the office about this estimate and so with my wife and Sir W. Penn to see our pictures, which do not much displease us, and so back again, and I stayed at the Mitre, whither I had invited all my old acquaintance of the Exchequer to a good chine of beef, which with three barrels of oysters and three pullets, and plenty of wine and mirth, was our dinner, and there was about twelve of us, among others Mr. Bowyer, the old man, and Mr. Faulconberge, Shadwell, Taylor, Spicer, Woodruffe (who by reason of some friend that dined with him came to us after dinner), Servington, etc., and here I made them a foolish promise to give them one this day twelvemonth, and so forever while I live, but I do not intend it. Here I stayed as long as I could keep them, and so home to Sir W. Penn, who with his children and my wife has been at a play today and saw d’Ambois, which I never saw. Here we stayed late at supper and playing at cards, and so home and to bed.