And Lord! to see
how I did endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could,
there being now no observation of shutting up of houses infected,
that to be sure we do converse and meet with people that have the
plague upon them. I spent some thoughts upon the occurrences of
this day, giving matter for as much content on one hand and
melancholy on another, as any day in all my life. For the first;
the finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London, and
speeding in my business of money this day. The hearing of this
good news to such excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's
doing any thing this year; adding to that, the decrease of 500
and more, which is the first decrease we have yet had in the
sickness since it begun: and great hopes that the next week it
will be greater. Then, on the other side, my finding that though
the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within the walls is
encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our house
there. My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be
buried close to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-
street.
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