I had
great satisfaction therein: and the truth is, I find all our
matters of credit to be in an ill condition. To walk all alone
in the fields behind Grayes Inne, making an end of reading over
my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's.
15th. To Hales, where I met my wife and people; and do find the
picture, above all things, a most pretty picture, and mighty like
my wife; and I asked him his price: he says 14l. and the truth
is, I think he do deserve it.
17th. To Hales's, and paid him 14l. for the picture, and 1l. 5s.
for the frame. This day I began to sit, and he will make me, I
think, a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as good as
my wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost
break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for
him to work by. Home, having a great cold: so to bed, drinking
butter-ale.
19th. After dinner we walked to the King's play-house, all in
dirt, they being altering of the stage to make it wider. But God
knows when they will begin to act again; but my business here was
to see the inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and
machines: and, indeed, it was a sight worthy seeing.
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