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told me how he is disturbed to hear the commanders at sea called
cowards here on shore.
28th. To my Lord Lauderdale's, where we find some Scotch people
at supper. Pretty odd company; though my Lord Brouncker tells
me, my Lord Lauderdale is a man of mighty good reason and
judgement. But at supper there played one of their servants upon
the viallin some Scotch tunes only; several, and the best of
their country, as they seemed to esteem them, by their praising
and admiring them: but, Lord! the strangest ayre that ever I
heard in my life, and all of one cast. But strange to hear my
Lord Lauderdale say himself that he had rather hear a cat mew
than the best musique in the world; and the better the musique,
the more sick it makes him; and that of all instruments, he hates
the lute most, and next to that, the baggpipe.
29th. All the town is full of a victory. By and by a letter
from Sir W. Coventry tells me that we have the victory. Beat
them into the Weelings: had taken two of their great ships; but
by the orders of the Generalls they are burned.


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