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He spoke slightly
of the Duke of Albemarle, saying, when De Ruyter come to give him
a broadside--"Now," says he, (chewing of tobacco the while) "will
this fellow come and give me two broadsides, and then he shall
run;" but it seems he held him to it two hours, till the Duke
himself was forced to retreat to refit, and was towed off, and De
Ruyter staid for him till he come back again to fight. One in
the ship saying to the Duke, "Sir, methinks De Ruyter hath given
us more than two broadsides;"-- "Well," says the Duke, "but you
shall find him run by and by," and so he did, says Sir W.
Coventry; but after the Duke himself had been first made to fall
off. The Resolution had all brass guns, being the same that Sir
J. Lawson had in her in the Straights. It is observed, that the
two fleets were even in number to one ship. Thence home; and to
sing with my wife and Mercer [Mrs. Pepys's maid.] in the garden;
and coming in I find my wife plainly dissatisfied with me, that I
can spend so much time with Mercer, teaching her to sing, and
could never take the pains with her.


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