25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife,
how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with
her own hand for me, poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord
Sandwich's; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her,
and do: and persuade myself she would do the same thing again,
if God should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith's did observe the
King's new medall, where in little there is Mrs. Stewart's face
as well done as ever I saw any thing in my whole life, I think:
and a pretty thing it is, that he should choose her face to
represent Brittannia by.
27th. This day at a leisure, the King and Duke of York being
gone down to Sheerenesse this morning to lay out the design for a
fortification there to the river Medway; and so we do not attend
the Duke or York as we should otherwise have done. To the Dock
Yard, and went into Mr. Pett's; and there beyond expectation he
did present me with a Japan cane with a silver head, and his wife
sent me by him a ring with a Woolwich stone, now much in request;
which I accepted, the values not being great: and then at my
asking did give me an old draught of an ancient-built ship, given
him by his father, of the Beare in Queene Elizabeth's time.
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