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"""Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, and that inbred corruption wherby I hated all things that were good, I cared not for; this unwillingness to read, and stammering when I did read did tire out his patience, so he would let mee leave of[f]'"""
"""In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to this passage of the author, that I have just now cited, viz of his having Jupiter in the sixth house, which made him a physician,I was really non-plust, and Planet-struck for that bout, and forced to lay aside my book, being unwilling to read what I could not understand. I then endeavoured to go to my rest, but in vain, my active genius was watchful, and constantly solicited me,even in my dreams, to enquire, and discover if I could, what Jupiter in the Sixth house meant.  . . .I had then. . . some small acquaintance with the learned Dr.  Nicholas Fisk. . .who presently gave me such satisfaction in the Point as I was thencapable of receiving."""
"""God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of """"""""Martin Luther"""""""", his comment on the """"""""Galathians"""""""", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn it over... I found my condition in his experience, so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart... I do prefer this book of Mr """"""""Luther"""""""" upon the 'Galathians' (excepting the Holy Bible) before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.'  """
"""I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry of Mademoisell de Tournon, is soe sad that when I had read it I was able to goe noe further, and was faine to take up something else to divert my self withall'."""
"""As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't the last time, I could not read my owne confession soe offten. Love is a Terrible word, and I should blush to death if any thing but a letter accused mee on't . . .'"""
"""the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]ted marriage . . .'"""
"""You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to blame to let her goe abroade.'"""
"""In the order and government of his Family,  he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning and evening Prayer and reading the sacred Scriptures in his Family; but also he catechized his children, and servants, wherein God gave him a singular gift for their edification; for in teaching them he used not any set form, but so, as that he brought them whom he instructed, to express the principles taught them in their own words; so that his children (as Gregory Nazianzen saith of his Father) found him as well a spiritual as a natural Father."""
"""I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read it first though shee were an imaginary person, and sure if any thing of that kinde can deserve it her misfortunes may.'"""
"""Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality though you were not tolde it, but in the whole I am not very much taken with it, all the Story's have too neer a resemblance with those of Other Romances there is nothing of new or surprenant in them . . . '"""
"""have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as diverting a book of the kinde as ever I read, and is handsomly written.'"""
"""After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts"""
"""After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts"""
"""[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allowed time for such Imployments of the Brain; yet I was so intent on my Study, that abridged myself of my Sleep and Rest. For after having wrought hard all day, from Five or Six in the Morning, till Ten or Eleven at Night, it was frequent with me to sit up two or three Hours reading'."""
"""[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic], a Science too rashly decried by some' [he then discusses the merits of Astrology at length, but not mentioning any specific texts]"""
"""But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'"""
"""When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would] studye hard to gett up what I had lost in the reading the Bible, stinting [i.e. limiting] my selfe to many chapters a day according to Mr Bifield's book [i.e. Nicholas Byfield, Directions for the Private Reading of the Scriptures (1618)], or in other studyes, that I might be equall to the rest of my yeare; though I thinke it was not very good for my eyesight.'"""
"""Adrian Johns notes that """"""""It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read only the Passions ..."""""""""""
"""I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares according to Mr Bifield's directions [i.e. Nicholas Byfield, Directions for the Private Reading of the Scripture (1618)]; yet gate I not much good for want of due meditation. I took notes also out of the Bible and putt it under such heads as might suit any state of life what so ever.'"""
"""I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes I had a gift of prayer, I knew that except the spirit of God helped my infirmityes . . . I could not pray in such a manner as to pleas God. I found it much better to use scripture phrase, on all occasions, th[a]n to trust to parts, and pray at random'."""
"""So to Pauls churchyard and there bought """"""""Montelion"""""""", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that and the Comedy of """"""""The Rump"""""""", which is also very silly, I went to bed.'"""
"""So to Pauls churchyard and there bought """"""""Montelion"""""""", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that and the Comedy of """"""""The Rump"""""""", which is also very silly, I went to bed.'"""
"""This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'"""
"""Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'"""
"""After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'"""
"""...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...'"""
"""At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that, we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome.'"""
"""At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that, we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome.'"""
"""And so home, where I fell to read """"""""The fruitlesse precaution"""""""" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it and do find it the best-writ tale that ever I read in my life.'"""
"""but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.'"""
"""I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'."""
"""I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'."""
"""""""""""Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading the answer of the Dutch ambassador to our State, in which answer to the reasons of my lord's coming home which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home."""""""""""
"""Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading the answer of the Dutch Embassador to our state, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home.'"""
"""To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's """"""""Church History"""""""" and read over Henry the 8ths life - in it. And so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - with great pleasure to my wife to hear that that she long ago was so well acquainted with.'"""
"""...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of Monarchy which was settled here before the Warrs.'"""
"""So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'"""
"""Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'"""
"""Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'"""
"""I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'"""
"""All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'"""
"""and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers """"""""History"""""""", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 at night; and so to bed.'"""
"""I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.'"""
"""To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but laugh at it: among other things, it is dedicated to that Paragon of virtue and beauty, the Duchesse of Albermarle.'"""
"""In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'"""
"""My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came last night to me from London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me.'"""
"""In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'"""
"""After he was gone, I fell a-reading """"""""Cornelianum Dolium"""""""" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after that to bed.'"""
"""""""""""This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of grave to all that will come in within 40 days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall hereafter except. .. The letter dated at Breda, April 4/14 1660, in the 212th year of his raigne. Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of the messengers of the Council from Generall Monke, my Lord summoned a council of war, and in the meantime did dictate to me how he would have pass this council. Which done, the commanders all came on board, and the council set in the coach (the first council of war that hath been in my time), where I read the letter and the declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote; which being offered, the passed.?"""
"""At home I fell a-reading of Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""" till it was late, and so to bed.'"""
"""Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in """"""""Polixandre"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not write it out."""""""""""
"""To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole book of the story of Tobit.'"""
"""At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which I took great pleasure.'"""
"""Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.'"""
"""I fell a-reading in Fuller's """"""""history of Abbys"""""""" and my wife in """"""""Grand Cyrus"""""""" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'"""
"""I fell a-reading in Fuller's """"""""history of Abbys"""""""" and my wife in """"""""Grand Cyrus"""""""" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'"""
"""Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'"""
"""And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.'"""
"""I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition'"""
"""Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'"""
"""And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'"""
"""Then to reading and at night to bed.'"""
"""earley up in the morning to read the """"""""Seamans grammar and dictionary"""""""" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedingly well.'"""
"""So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now busy about); and had good sport about the long marks that are made there for sentences in Divinity, which he is never like to make use of.'"""
"""I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors, to that purpose.'"""
"""The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading """"""""The Spanish Gypsy"""""""", a play not very good, though commended much.'"""
"""Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'"""
"""I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors, to that purpose.'"""
"""and so home and to supper and to Selden """"""""Mare Clausum"""""""" and so to bed.'"""
"""At night fell to read in Hookers """"""""Ecclesiastical policy"""""""" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his sake.'"""
"""And in the garden reading """"""""Faber fortunae"""""""" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'"""
"""...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'"""
"""And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'"""
"""So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his """"""""liberty and necessity"""""""", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'"""
"""So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his """"""""liberty and necessity"""""""", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'"""
"""So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'"""
"""and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'"""
"""and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Cambdens """"""""Brittannia"""""""", which I intended to buy of him and so took it away with me and left it at St Pauls churchyard to be bound'"""
"""and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'"""
"""So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'"""
"""Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'"""
"""I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's """"""""Patriarchae"""""""".'"""
"""I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's """"""""Patriarchae"""""""".'"""
"""Then home - I to read.'"""
"""And then I up to my chamber to read.'"""
"""and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'"""
"""Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find more and more trouble like to attend it.'"""
"""'This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.'"""
"""And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I stayed at home at my book.'"""
"""at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in """"""""Mare Clausum"""""""" till bedtime'"""
"""and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's """"""""Holy Warr"""""""" (which I have of late bought) and did try to make a Song...' """
"""we returned and I settled to read in """"""""Mare Clausum"""""""" till bedtime'"""
"""In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I am glad to see that he hath done so well for us all - and well to the rest of his kindred.'"""
"""This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'"""
"""Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers """"""""Englands worthys"""""""" - the first time that I ever saw it; and so I sat down reading in it, till it was 2 a-clock before I thought of the time's going.'"""
"""And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.'"""
"""Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'"""
"""This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'"""
"""and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'"""
"""So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bitter petition to the King against our office, for not doing Justice upon his complaint to us of embezzlement of the King's stores by one Turpin. I took Sir Wm to Sir W. Pens (who was newly come from Walthamstowe), and there we read it and discoursed.'"""
"""So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bitter petition to the King against our office, for not doing Justice upon his complaint to us of embezzlement of the King's stores by one Turpin. I took Sir Wm to Sir W. Pens (who was newly come from Walthamstowe), and there we read it and discoursed.'"""
"""and so home and to supper. And after reading part of """"""""Bussy D'Ambois"""""""", a good play I bought today - to bed.'"""
"""At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'."""
"""At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'."""
"""At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clearly convinced that my former practise was sinfull, and deserved the stroak of God's vengeance'."""
"""He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'"""
"""and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I am much contented'"""
"""Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'"""
"""It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being """"""""A wife for a month"""""""" - wherein no great wit or language.'"""
"""And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed'"""
"""so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'"""
"""My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's """"""""Imposture"""""""" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.'"""
"""My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's """"""""Imposture"""""""" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.'"""
"""and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the """"""""Advice to a Daughter"""""""", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much nonsense in print.' """
"""and my wife and I to read Ovids """"""""Metamorphoses"""""""", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'"""
"""and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the """"""""Advice to a Daughter"""""""", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much nonsense in print.' """
"""and my wife and I to read Ovids """"""""Metamorphoses"""""""", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'"""
"""My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and reading of Dr Fullers """"""""Worthys"""""""".'"""
"""went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which appear to me, upon first sight, to be very pretty.'"""
"""and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'"""
"""This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.'"""
"""At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased with them, they hitting the very diseases of the Navy which we are troubled with nowadays. I shall bestow writing of them over and much reading thereof.' """
"""At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in """"""""The Wallflower"""""""" with great pleasure.'"""
"""I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'"""
"""Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely bound up - a treatise concerning the benefit the Hollanders make of our fishing; but whereas I expected great matters from it, I find it a very impertinent book; and though some things good, yet so full of tautologys that we were weary of it.'"""
"""So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's """"""""Mare Clausum""""""""; and so to bed.'"""
"""and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's """"""""Mare Clausum""""""""; and so to bed.'"""
"""I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'"""
"""Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of """"""""The Adventures of five houres"""""""", and it is a most excellent play.'"""
"""So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'"""
"""Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings with fine cuts, and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner...'"""
"""Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'"""
"""at night my wife read """"""""Sir H. Vanes trial"""""""" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'"""
"""and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge and I carried them on board the King's pleasure-boat - all the way reading in a book of Receipts of making fine meats and sweetmeats; among others, one """"""""To make my own sweet water"""""""" - which made us good sport.'"""
"""at night my wife read """"""""Sir H. Vanes trial"""""""" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'"""
"""At night fell to reading in the """"""""Church History"""""""" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, which pleases me mightly for his zeal, obedience and boldness in a cause of reilgion.'"""
"""In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business against tomorrow and so home to supper to my wife'"""
"""To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'"""
"""This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's """"""""Elenchus"""""""", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for which I am sorry.'"""
"""Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'"""
"""He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'"""
"""Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him.'"""
"""and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'"""
"""Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the other day the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the churches of the whole kingdom conforms.'"""
"""I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'"""
"""And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday; being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope, Alexander the 7th - it being a very excellent piece.'"""
"""At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.'"""
"""And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'"""
"""This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging tender consciences, not that he will yield to have any mixture in the uniformity of Church discipline.'"""
"""So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called """"""""Love a la mode"""""""".'"""
"""So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called """"""""Love a la mode"""""""".'"""
"""So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called """"""""Love a la mode"""""""".'"""
"""Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.'"""
"""And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'"""
"""Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's """"""""faber Fortune"""""""", which the oftener I read the more I admire.'"""
"""Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'"""
"""Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English """"""""Mare clausum""""""""; which, with the new Orthodox title, makes it now very handsome.'"""
"""There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane to see a Cocke-fighting at a new pit there - a sport I was never at in my life...'"""
"""Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Comission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his prisoner - in Fields business.'"""
"""Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will to the reading of a Chapter in Latin and I am resolved to get through it.'"""
"""and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' """
"""So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons """"""""Devil is an Asse"""""""".'"""
"""then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'"""
"""And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gentry to be preferred before Titular honours; but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that I ever saw in all my life, that from beginning to end you meet not with one entire and regular sentence.'"""
"""This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may do good thereof - but fear it will prove but a poor project.'"""
"""To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read """"""""Iter boreale"""""""", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well but not so as it was cried up.'"""
"""While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it """"""""The Sleighted mayde"""""""".'"""
"""He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'"""
"""and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those things.'"""
"""In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so home to supper and to bed with good content of mind.'"""
"""Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the Lyne of Numbers, in which I find much pleasure.'"""
"""So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hastened to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'"""
"""So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my condition in the world, that I do know.'"""
"""staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'"""
"""Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.'"""
"""At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other books and in good discourse, and then he went away'"""
"""So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'"""
"""At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, """"""""Counsell to Builders"""""""", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; it is dedicated almost to all the men of any great condition in England, so that the epistles are more than the book itself; and both it and them not worth a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought it.'"""
"""And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of """"""""Hudibras"""""""", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the first, which the world cries so mightily up; though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had tried by twice or three times reading to bring myself to think it witty.'"""
"""walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] """"""""The Politician cheated"""""""".'"""
"""So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'"""
"""I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerned.'"""
"""Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.'"""
"""November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be legall preparations before faith is wrought in the soule; I examined my selfe, and could not find that orderly proceeding of God with my soule by humiliation, contrition, etc. as I desired . . . '"""
"""After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and Scobells """"""""collecions"""""""" - I shall make the King pay for them. The first I spent at my office some time to read and it is an excellent book.'"""
"""Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the Presbyters called """"""""Cabbala"""""""", extraordinary witty.'"""
"""Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the Presbyters called """"""""Cabbala"""""""", extraordinary witty.'"""
"""And after dinner up and read part of the new play of """"""""The Five houres adventures""""""""; which though I have seen it twice, yet I never did admire or understand it enough - it being a play of the greatest plot that I ever expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play, from beginning to the end.'"""
"""and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink but a simple beginning.'"""
"""This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'"""
"""While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'"""
"""and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""Up and to read a little;'"""
"""my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'"""
"""I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'"""
"""and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'"""
"""And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's after him.'"""
"""And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's after him.'"""
"""I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new """"""""Concordance"""""""" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when it is only put in another place.'"""
"""Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers """"""""Body of Divinity"""""""" his discourse of the Scripture; which is as much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man, but yet there is room to cavill, if a man would use no faith to the tradition of the Church in which he is born; which I think to be as good as any argument as most is brought for many things, and it may be for that, among others.'"""
"""Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""" and Barcklys """"""""Argenis""""""""; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'"""
"""Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""" and Barcklys """"""""Argenis""""""""; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'"""
"""Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""So home and at my office reading my vowes;'"""
"""My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that they bore more respect to their parents than any nation in the world'."""
"""This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at it tonight but durst not stay long at it, I being come to have a great pain and water in my eyes after candle-light.'"""
"""He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously writ, both for matter and style.'"""
"""At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'"""
"""We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family of the cliffords and Kingsmils)'"""
"""Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Microscope, to enable me a little how to use and what to expect from my glasse.'"""
"""and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when I was going to agree for them and so with much ado got myself out of the shop, glad at my heart and so away)'"""
"""Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our reading.'"""
"""After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'"""
"""After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'"""
"""and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscopes, and so home to bed.'"""
"""So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's """"""""Cateline"""""""", a very excellent piece.'"""
"""October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this world to make us weary of it. And this have I often experienced . . . '"""
"""calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called """"""""Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty"""""""" - extraordinary good.'"""
"""So home, reading all the way a good book;'"""
"""So home and late reading """"""""The Siege of Rhodes"""""""" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'"""
"""and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'"""
"""So anon they went away and then I to read another play, """"""""The Custome of the Country"""""""", which is a very poor one methinks.'"""
"""but I spent all morning reading of """"""""The Madd Lovers"""""""" - a very good play'"""
"""and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and that being done, in the book upon the statutes of Charitable uses, mightily to my satisfaction.'"""
"""and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and that being done, in the book upon the statutes of Charitable uses, mightily to my satisfaction.'"""
"""Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book again.' """
"""We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'"""
"""Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tanger - all the way coming and going, I reading and discoursing over some papers of his'"""
"""This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of """"""""Love a Cheate"""""""") I began ten year ago at Cambridge; and at this time, reading it over tonight, I liked it very well and wondered a little at myself at my vein at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now if I would try.'"""
"""and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'"""
"""I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over """"""""Theatrum Urbium"""""""" and """"""""Flandria illustrata"""""""", with excellent cuts, with great content.'"""
"""I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over """"""""Theatrum Urbium"""""""" and """"""""Flandria illustrata"""""""", with excellent cuts, with great content.'"""
"""and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading """"""""Faber fortunae"""""""", which I can never read too often.'"""
"""After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings """"""""Aglaura"""""""", which methinks is but a mean play - nothing of design in it.'"""
"""so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach her.'"""
"""and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and to bed.'"""
"""We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of """"""""The Seige of Rhodes"""""""", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'"""
"""So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in """"""""Rhodes"""""""" and so to sleep.'"""
"""I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up but methinks a mean sermon.'"""
"""Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfleete's """"""""Origines Saacrae"""""""", wherein many things are very good - and some frivolous.'"""
"""At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'"""
"""Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths """"""""Collections"""""""" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and understand the discourse anon before the King, about the suffering the Turkey merchants to send out their fleet at this dangerous time'"""
"""This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the late victory.'"""
"""Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'"""
"""and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, """"""""La Nouvelle Allegorique"""""""", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant.'"""
"""Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recitative Song in the beginning of his book.'"""
"""Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's """"""""Microscopicall Observacions"""""""", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'"""
"""I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, that whoever did spread that report that instead of the plague, his servant was killed by him, it was forgery;...'"""
"""This day the first of the """"""""Oxford Gazettes"""""""" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'"""
"""but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'"""
"""and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'"""
"""And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings """"""""works"""""""", which is a noble book - to bed.'"""
"""Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.'"""
"""but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'"""
"""and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, her husband in company with her. We fell into talk, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and he discommended but the lady commended; and I read them so as to make the husband turn to commend them.'"""
"""and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'"""
"""He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his """"""""Hortus hyemalis""""""""; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'"""
"""He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his """"""""Hortus hyemalis""""""""; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'"""
"""He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his """"""""Hortus hyemalis""""""""; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'"""
"""He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his """"""""Hortus hyemalis""""""""; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'"""
"""He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his """"""""Hortus hyemalis""""""""; leaves laid up in a book of several plants, kept dry, which preserve Colour however, and look very finely, better than any herball... He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendent, yet one or two very pretty Epigrams: among others, of a lady looking in at a grate and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.'"""
"""at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'"""
"""Thence to Brainford, reading """"""""The Villaine"""""""" (a pretty good play) all the way.'"""
"""and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dreadfull Number - and shows reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet continue among us.'"""
"""and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) but did give it me to open and read, and consider what was fit for our offce to do in it and leave the letter with Sir W. Clarke... I copied out the letter...'"""
"""At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with business today, I to bed.'"""
"""The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'"""
"""[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '"""
"""[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '"""
"""and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's """"""""Faber Fortunae"""""""".'"""
"""and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most excellent; and whether it be right or wrong, is mighty ingenious.'"""
"""I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams """"""""manuall"""""""", a very good book.'"""
"""Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should never be remembered by anybody) which tells how several persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a design of killing the King and destroying the government; and as a means to it, to burn the City; and that the day entended for the plot was the 3rd of last September. And that fire did endeed break out on the 2nd of September - which is very strange me-thinks - and I shall remember it.'"""
"""This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'"""
"""Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear """"""""Faber Fortunae"""""""" of my Lord Bacon's'"""
"""So down the River, reading """"""""The Adventures of five houres"""""""", which the more I read the more I admire.'"""
"""and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'"""
"""and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of """"""""The Mayor of Quinborough"""""""", a simple play.'"""
"""After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the policy and customs of the Turkes, which is it seems much cried up - but I could not stay'"""
"""Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of """"""""The Adventures of five houres"""""""", - which when all is done, is the best play that ever I read in my life.'"""
"""to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'"""
"""Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late new plays.'"""
"""and thence walked to Woolwich, reading """"""""The Rivall Ladys"""""""" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'"""
"""So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of """"""""The Rivall Ladys"""""""", and find it a very pretty play.'"""
"""and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of """"""""The Bondman"""""""" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin """"""""The Duchesse of Malfy"""""""", which seems a good play.'"""
"""and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of """"""""The Bondman"""""""" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin """"""""The Duchesse of Malfy"""""""", which seems a good play.'"""
"""Up and to Deptford by water, reading """"""""Othello, Moore of Venice"""""""", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read """"""""The Adventures of five houres"""""""", it seems a mean thing.'"""
"""Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about 100 years since, which he did lend us to read and deliver him back again.'"""
"""And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Purgatory, a point I had never considered before what was said for it or against it. And though I do believe we are in the right, yet I do not see any great matter in this book.'"""
"""So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading """"""""Pompey the Great"""""""" (a play translated from French by several notable persons; among other my Lord Buckehurst); but to me is a mean play, and the words and sense not very extraordinary.'"""
"""and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and then to bed - the discourse being well writ in good style, but methinks not very convincing.'"""
"""August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of God in many cases'."""
"""By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desired his Royal Highness to give me the satisfaction of knowing whether his Royal Highness was pleased therewith. He told me he was...'"""
"""And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'"""
"""He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked and read till dark - with great pleasure'"""
"""So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's """"""""Faber Fortunae"""""""" which I gave him to do; and he hath done it but meanly, I am not pleased with it at all - having done it only literally, but without any life at all.'"""
"""But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron coming home, if we had done our parts.'"""
"""But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron coming home, if we had done our parts.'"""
"""and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""", and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""", and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whole matter.'"""
"""and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second part of """"""""The Seige of Rhodes"""""""" with great delight.'"""
"""I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choked up in several places'"""
"""I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed'"""
"""This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge Knight of the Guarter.'"""
"""May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that they might be fixed in my memory, I preached upon Ephesians 2:8 and made use of many of his notions . . .'"""
"""and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading """"""""Duchess of Malfy"""""""", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'"""
"""I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'"""
"""Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'"""
"""he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'"""
"""he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'"""
"""and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he hath of late read in the printed """"""""Cabbala"""""""", which is very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated.'"""
"""and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several """"""""Advices to a Painter"""""""", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'"""
"""and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'"""
"""and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] """"""""The Virtuoso or The Stoicke"""""""", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opinions; wherein in some places he speaks well, but generally is but a sorry man.'"""
"""So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of """"""""Hydrostatickes"""""""", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understand him through if I can, the doctrine being very useful.'"""
"""and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's """"""""Introduction to Music"""""""", a very good but inmethodical book.'"""
"""and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice that were found in the dead man's pockets, and but 18d in money - and a table-book, wherein were entered the names of several places where he was to go'"""
"""and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark'"""
"""So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's """"""""Antidote against Atheisme"""""""", a pretty book; and so to bed.'"""
"""and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the business; which they do wonder at, and the trouble that I have taken about it, and like the report, so as that they do unanimously resolve to sign it and stand by it.' """
"""Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'"""
"""'and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'"""
"""and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life; we find a shepheard and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him. So I made the boy read to me, which he did with the forced Tone that children do usually read, that was mighty pretty; and then I did give him something and went to the father and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my Cosen Pepy's house, and told me what was become of their old servants.'"""
"""Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'"""
"""And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'"""
"""And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'"""
"""And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'"""
"""And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'"""
"""I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turning him out of the office but what other punishment he could'"""
"""By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth inform me in many things; and for aught I see, it is useful to know what these crimes are.'"""
"""and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she doth very well; and was Mr Boyle's discourse upon the Style of the Scripture, which is a very fine piece.'"""
"""and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at the King's House.'"""
"""and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' """
"""and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed'"""
"""and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'"""
"""Only, here I met with a fourth """"""""Advice to the painter"""""""", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sharp and so true.'"""
"""Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the plots of the papists therein; which it seems hath been ordered and hath been burnt by the hands of the hangman in Westminster Palace - I will try to get one of them.'"""
"""and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'"""
"""Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's """"""""Church History""""""""'"""
"""Up, and to read more in the Origines'"""
"""and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and there however I got her to read to me the """"""""History of Algier"""""""", which I find a very pretty book.'"""
"""I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the """"""""Apology for Papists"""""""", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my life, and glad I am that I read it.'"""
"""and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'"""
"""and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'"""
"""I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'"""
"""They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'"""
"""and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'"""
"""At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he reads to me.'"""
"""I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Driden's upon the present war - a very good poem.'"""
"""and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'"""
"""Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then back again, all the way reading and finishing Mr Boyle's book of Colours, which is so Chymicall that I can understand but little of it, but understand enough to see that he is a most excellent man.'"""
"""and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.'"""
"""And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did lend me the """"""""Third Advice to a paynter"""""""", a bitter Satyr upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year. I took it home with me and will copy it, having the former - being also mightily pleased with it. So after reading it, I to Sir W. Penn to discourse a little'"""
"""and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'"""
"""all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the Warr, for preventing the Parliament's having them in their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said against us from any of our orders'"""
"""and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'"""
"""and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'"""
"""I read to her out of the """"""""History of Algiers"""""""", which is mighty pretty reading'"""
"""and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of """"""""Grand Cyrus"""""""" in English by her'"""
"""and then home and to my chamber to read'"""
"""After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking to bear her company, and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords """"""""Introduction to Musique"""""""", wherein are some things very pretty.'"""
"""and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'"""
"""Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved by the present Lord Commissioners; which will, I think, spoil the credit of his Majesty's service, when people cannot depend upon payment anywhere.'"""
"""Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's """"""""Pleas of the Crowne"""""""", very fine noble reading.'"""
"""and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.'"""
"""and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's """"""""Hydrostatickes"""""""", which the more I read and understand, the more I admire as a most excellent piece of philosophy.'"""
"""and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles """"""""Hydrostatickes"""""""", which are of infinite delight.'"""
"""and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money heretofore upon the people, and how they have played upon the kings also.'"""
"""all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration and caused it to be new writ'"""
"""And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not find much excess of good matter, though it be pretty for a by-discourse.'"""
"""I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy [of] observation.'"""
"""I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy [of] observation.'"""
"""After supper, I to read and then to bed.'"""
"""After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'"""
"""so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus """"""""de scribendis Epistolis"""""""", a very good book; especially, one letter of advice to a Courtier most true and good - which made me once resolve to tear out the two leaves that it was writ in - but I forebore it.'"""
"""and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'"""
"""Then home to read, sup and to bed.'"""
"""and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' """
"""After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'"""
"""and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troubled that some part of it, endeed the greatest part, I am not able to understand for want of study.'"""
"""and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'"""
"""and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'"""
"""It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'"""
"""In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'"""
"""how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's """"""""apology"""""""", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was as to Nature. I continued reading this book with great pleasure till supper' """
"""and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'"""
"""And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book in my hand (the Life of Cardinal Wolsey, wrote by his own servant), and to Ratcliffe'"""
"""and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company would come'"""
"""and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'"""
"""I home and there to read very good things in Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""" and """"""""Worthies"""""""", and so to supper'"""
"""I home and there to read very good things in Fullers """"""""Church History"""""""" and """"""""Worthies"""""""", and so to supper'"""
"""Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults """"""""History of the Turkes"""""""", which is a very good book.'"""
"""and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'"""
"""and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'"""
"""So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about the little profit of honour this Kingdom ever gained in its greatest of its conquests abroad in France.'"""
"""But I fell to read a book (Boyle's """"""""Hydrostatickes"""""""") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'"""
"""This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his """"""""Templum""""""""; but the most ridiculous book, as he hath translated it, that I ever saw in my life; I declaring that I understood not three lines together, from one end of the book to the other.'"""
"""And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'"""
"""He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.'"""
"""And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'"""
"""This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, hath so much of the Civil Law in it that I am not a fit judge of it; but as it appears to me, he hath a good pretence to it by right of his Queene. So to bed.'"""
"""and when came home there, I got my wife to read'"""
"""and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but mightily pleased at this falling out.' """
"""And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'"""
"""So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending it mightily to me for my reading as the only book of that subject that ever was writ, yet so designedly.'"""
"""and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech that ever I read in my life); and so to bed.'"""
"""and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called """"""""The Visions"""""""", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wherein there are many pretty things, but the translation is, as to the rendering it in English expression, the best that I ever saw, it being impossible almost to conceive that it should be a translation.'"""
"""Here was mighty good discourse, as there is alway; and among other things, my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the """"""""Life of Sir Ph. Sidny"""""""", wrote by Sir Fulke Grevill, which doth fortell the present condition of this nation in relation to the Dutch, to the degree of prophecy; and is so remarkable that I am resolved to buy one of them, it being quite through a good discourse.' """
"""and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'"""
"""and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'"""
"""and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'"""
"""Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called """"""""L'escholle de Filles"""""""", but when I came to look into it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that I ever saw, rather worse than """"""""putana errante"""""""" - so that I was ashamed of reading in it'"""
"""and so home and did get my wife to read to me'"""
"""and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'"""
"""But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I read and the rest came about me to hear; and there very merry we were all, they being new ballets.'"""
"""and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'"""
"""and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber'"""
"""And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of """"""""Mustapha"""""""".'"""
"""and then he to read to me the """"""""Life of Archbishopp Laud"""""""", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great good, but hurt - it pleads for so much Popish.'"""
"""Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'"""
"""And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'"""
"""Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer [her] to write what she writes to him and of him. Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read; and it being a fair print, to ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that.'"""
"""and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'"""
"""and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'"""
"""so home, my wife to read to me out of """"""""The Siege of Rhodes""""""""; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'"""
"""and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'"""
"""and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'"""
"""and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the Officers of this office to the Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.'"""
"""and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the Officers of this office to the Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.'"""
"""So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'"""
"""and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'"""
"""And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as """"""""The Maiden Queen"""""""" or """"""""The Indian Imperour"""""""", of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me is wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the """"""""Illustr. Bassa"""""""".'"""
"""This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms which I had thought fit to put in.'"""
"""and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the """"""""Queene of Arragon"""""""" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so to bed.'"""
"""and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the """"""""Queene of Arragon"""""""" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so to bed.'"""
"""And after dinner, she to read in the """"""""Illustr. Bassa"""""""" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.'"""
"""and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'"""
"""and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'"""
"""And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'"""
"""He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'"""
"""and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'"""
"""and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'"""
"""and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'"""
"""and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'"""
"""And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not likely to be troubled for anything of that kind but what I shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or if discovered, be able to justify myself in.'"""
"""and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'"""
"""So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'"""
"""and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'"""
"""In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'"""
"""and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'"""
"""and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'"""
"""I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time) till Mr Wren comes by'"""
"""and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'"""
"""and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So home to read and sup; and to bed.'"""
"""He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the """"""""Life of Archbishop Laud"""""""", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.' """
"""and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'"""
"""and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'"""
"""and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'"""
"""Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'"""
"""Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'"""
"""and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'"""
"""and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'"""
"""And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'"""
"""and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's """"""""Real Character"""""""".'"""
"""and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all the ways and secrets by which Nature teaches speech in man - which doth please me most infinitely to read.'"""
"""Going down I spent reading of the """"""""Five Sermons of Five Several Styles""""""""; worth comparing one with another, but I do think when all is done, that contrary to the design of the book, the Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five for sermons to be preached in; this I do by the best of my present judgement think.'"""
"""And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-gate's business than this that the world so much adores - and I am glad for my own sake to find it so.'"""
"""and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'"""
"""and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'"""
"""Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, and as I bid her, returned me the note, flinging it to me in passing by.'"""
"""and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'"""
"""So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'"""
"""And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'"""
"""in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking and singing, and reading a foolish copy of verses up[on] my Lord Mayors entertaining of all the Bachelors, designed in praise to my Lord Mayor.' """
"""and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I find it so well writ, as I think it too good for him ever to have writ it - and it is a serious sort of book, and not fit for everybody to read.'"""
"""So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'"""
"""and so home and to supper and read'"""
"""and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'"""
"""and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, and yet so as I think I shall make good use of in defence of our present constitution.'"""
"""Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'"""
"""and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""""""""""... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure that they were all from the same book because he had been able freely to riffle through the sheets."""""""" """
"""and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'"""
"""and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York'"""
"""So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my """"""""Nipotisme"""""""", and then to bed.'"""
"""and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'"""
"""So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my """"""""Nipotisme"""""""", and then to bed.'"""
"""and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'"""
"""At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'"""
"""and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'"""
"""and then home and got my wife to read to me again in """"""""The Nepotisme"""""""", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""and home, my wife to read to me'"""
"""Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice in the King's Navy; it is to have the Captain's to endent for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds to my thinking, and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it.'"""
"""I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'"""
"""and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'"""
"""and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow'"""
"""Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up and doth please me mightily.'"""
"""and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'"""
"""So home and to supper and read'"""
"""and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'"""
"""and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'"""
"""and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'"""
"""and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called """"""""The State of England"""""""", which promises well and is worth reading; and so after a while to bed.'"""
"""and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'"""
"""and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'"""
"""and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'"""
"""and then to her, and she read to me the """"""""Epistle of Cassandra"""""""", which is very good endeed, and the better to her because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and I to bed.'"""
"""and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'"""
"""and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'"""
"""But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so much as I could make any judgement on it.'"""
"""and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'"""
"""But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse and the King's answers to him upon the great business of my Lord Clarendon'"""
"""April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's offering his only son etc., little thinking (as I told my neighbours) how neerly it concerned mee.  Reading Exodus 12 I could not refraine tears at the words of v.30.'"""
"""il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptised in London."""
"""February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, according to which thus I find my selfe for present' [there follows a list of five 'signs', a couple keyed to page numbers in the book.]"""
"""That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, curat at that tyme of the parish, in presence of Thomas Argall, esq., who advised the sending of it to Sir John Shaw"""
"""""""""""[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they were printed.  On 8 November [1675] he came to the review of Helioscopes. Hooke was livid.  'Saw the Lying Dog Oldenburg's Transactions,' he wrote in his diary.  'Resolved to quit all employments and seek my health.'"""""""""""
"""the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'"""
"""And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The Doctrine of Conversion (as I preached it as now in my Treatise of Conversion) was received on her heart as the seal on the wax. Whereupon she presently fell to self-judging, and to frequent prayer, and reading, and serious thoughts of her present state, and her salvation."""
"""When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good books to them. """
"""May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I knew, I found that being soberly brought up he found not that change, which others, who were wicked, found at their conversion . . . '"""
"""August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfe"""
"""as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me"""
"""May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, and resisting ...  Soon after in Dr Sibbs his Bruised Reed, I found that resisting sin was one degree of victory, so that if I cannot root out ill thoughts, I will resi[s]t them..."""
"""May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, and resisting ...  Soon after in Dr Sibbs his Bruised Reed, I found that resisting sin was one degree of victory, so that if I cannot root out ill thoughts, I will resi[s]t them..."""
"""December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read it. 'Twas upon Ephesians 3:19, which did much affect mee, and some short hints of it I used in my sermon before the sacrament, and then I was much moved with a sense of Christ's love, and could scarce forbeare weeping'."""
"""Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Going to get a drink of water, she left] her Bible open at the place where she had been reading . . . the 34th chapter of Isaiah, beginning """"""""My sword shall be bathed in heaven"""""""" . . . . On returning she found a patch of something like blood covering the very text. In great surprise, she carried the book home, where a young man tasted the substance with his tongue, and found it of a saltless or insipid flavour. On the two succeeding Sundays, while the same girl was reading her Bible in the open air, similar blotches of matter, like blood,fell upon the leaves. She did not perceive it in the act of falling till it was about an inch from the book.'"""
"""September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quarrell with mee, and I used bitter expressions to him . . . but see a providence to humble mee! I had lent a booke which was newly come home; before I sett it up I opened it up by chance . . . and found the beginning of Bishop Hall's sermon upon Ephesians 4:30, who tooke notice that by the connexion of the text 'twas evident that sinns of the tongue did unkindly grieve God's spirit. This struck me with griefe, and shame, resolving to be more watchfull heerafter, which God grant!'"""
"""""""""""When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked permission to take copies of them."""""""""""
"""Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all rubbed off,which supposses the passage to be streight, but how they could force the Duck into so difficult a way or whither anything of this is more than Conjecture must be left to every ones liberty to judge."""