But unfortunately the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so
basely altered that it disgraces the stone.
MARCH 1, 1665-6. Blessed be God! a good Bill this week we have;
being but 257 in all, and 42 of the plague, and of them but six
in the City: though my Lord Brouncker says, that these six are
most of them in new parishes where they were not the last week
3rd. To Hales's, and there saw my wife sit; and I do like her
picture mightily, and very like it will be, and a brave piece of
work. But he do complain that her nose hath cost him as much
work as another's face, and he hath done it finely indeed.
5th. News for certain of the King of Denmark's declaring for the
Dutch, and resolution to assist them. I find my Lord Brouncker
and Mrs. Williams, and they would of their own accord, though I
had never obliged them (nor my wife neither) with one visit for
many of theirs, go see my house and my wife; which I showed them,
and made them welcome with wine and China oranges (now a great
rarity since the war, none to be had.) My house happened to be
mighty clean, and did me great honour, and they mightily pleased
with it.
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