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8th. Discoursed with Mr. Hooke about the nature of sounds, and
he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by
strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a
certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able
to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings, (those flies
that hum in their flying by the note that it answers to in
musique, during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too
much refined; but his discourse in general of sound was mighty
fine. To St. James's, where we attended with the rest of my
fellows on the Duke, whom I found with two or three Patches upon
his nose and about his right eye, which came from his being
struck with the bough of a tree the other day in his hunting; and
it is a wonder it did not strike out his eye. To Bow, to my Lady
Pooly's, [Wife of Sir Edmund Pooly, mentioned before.] where my
wife was with Mr. Batelier and his sisters; and there I found a
noble supper. About ten o'clock we rose from table, and sang a
song; and so home in two coaches, (Mr.


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