Mr. Pierce tells us what troubles me, that my Lord
Buckhurst hath got Nell away from the King's house, and gives her
100l. a-year, so as she hath sent her parts to the house, and
will act no more and yesterday Sir Thomas Crewe told me that Lacy
lies a-dying; nor will receive any ghostly advice from a bishop,
an old acquaintance of his, that went to see him. It is an odd
and sad thing to say, that though this be a peace worse than we
had before, yet everybody's fear almost is, that the Dutch will
not stand by their promise, now the King hath consented to all
they would have. And yet no wise man that I meet with, when he
comes to think of it, but wishes with all his heart a war; but
that the King is not a man to be trusted with the management of
it. It was pleasantly said by a man in this City, a stranger, to
one that told him the peace was concluded, "Well," says he, "and
have you a peace?" "Yes," says the other. "Why then," says he,
"hold your peace!" Partly reproaching us with the disgracefulness
of it, that it is not fit to be mentioned; and next, that we are
not able to make the Dutch keep it, when they have a mind to
break it.
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