From the King to the Lord Chancellor, who did lie bed-rid
of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child and me. After
that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met Dr. Fuller, whom I
sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the rest
went to see the Queen, who used us very respectfully: her hand
we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but a plain lady. In
a coach we went to see a house of the Princess Dowager's [Mary,
daughter of Charles I.] in a park about a mile from the Hague,
where there is one of the most beautiful rooms for pictures in
the whole world. She had here one picture upon the top, with
these words, dedicating it to the memory of her husband:--
"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua."
18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our
Lord High admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I
took waggon for Scheveling. But the wind being so very high that
no boats could get off from shore, we returned to the Hague
(having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's and
Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of
his coming); we got a boy of the town to go along with us, and he
showed us the church where Van Trump lies entombed with a very
fine monument.
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