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15th. At home, to look after things for dinner. And anon at
noon comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by and by the three young
ladies: [Lord Sandwich's daughters.] and very merry we were
with our pasty, very well baked; and a good dish of roasted
chickens; pease, lobsters, strawberries. But after dinner to
cards: and about five o'clock, by water down to Greenwich; and
up to the top of the hill, and there played upon the ground at
cards. And so to the Cherry Garden, and then by water singing
finely to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again,
and to Somerset House. And by this time, the tide being against
us, it was past ten of the clock; and such a troublesome passage,
in regard of my Lady Paulina's fearfullness, that in all my life
I never did see any poor wretch in that, condition. Being come
hither, there waited for them their coach; but it being so late,
I doubted what to do how to get them home. After half an hour's
stay in the street, I sent my wife home by coach with Mr. Creed's
boy; and myself and Creed in the coach home with them.


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