After I
had dined, I and Creed rose and went up and down the house, and
up to the ladys' room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But
though there were many and fine, both young and old, yet I could
not discern one handsome face there; which was very strange. I
expected musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums,
which displeased me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor
and two Sheriffs for the time being, the Lord Mayor paying one
half, and they the other. And the whole, Proby says, is reckoned
to come to about 7 or 800l. at most. The Queene mends apace,
they say; but yet talks idle still.
30th. To my great sorrow find myself 43l. worse than I was the
last month, which was then 760l. and now it is but 717l. But it
hath chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and
wife; viz. for her about 12l. and for myself 55l., or
thereabouts: having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth
skirts, black, plain both; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold
buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and
many other things, being resolved, henceforward to go like
myself.
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