] got to be burgess in a
little borough in the West, and here fell into the acquaintance
of my Lord Arlington, whose creature he is, and never from him; a
man of virtue, and comely, and good parts enough; and hath come
into his place with a great grace, though with a great skip over
the heads of a great many, as Chichly and Denham, and some Lords
that did expect it. By the way, he tells me that of all the
great men of England there is none that endeavours more to raise
those that he takes into favour than my Lord Arlington; and that
on that score he is much more to be made one's patron than my
Lord Chancellor, who never did, nor never will do any thing, but
for money. Certain news of the Dutch being abroad on our coast
with twenty-four great ships. Met my Lady Newcastle going with
her coaches and footmen all in velvet: herself (whom I never saw
before), as I have heard her often described (for all the town-
talk is now-a-days of her extravagancies), with her velvet-cap,
her hair about her ears; many black patches, because of pimples
about her mouth; naked-necked, without any thing about it, and a
black just-au-corps.
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