Only the gallery
is good, and above all things the cellars, where we went down and
drank of much good liquor. And indeed the cellars are fine: and
here my wife and I did sing to my great content. And then to the
garden, and there eat many grapes, and took some with us: and so
away thence exceeding well satisfied, though not to that degree
that by my old esteem of the house I ought and did expect to have
done, the situation of it not pleasing me. Thence away to
Cambridge, and did take up at the Rose.
9th. Up, and got ready, and eat our breakfast; and then took
coach; and the poor, as they did yesterday, did stand at the
coach to have something given them, as they do to all great
persons; and I did give them something: and the town musick did
also come and play; but, Lord! what sad musick they made! So
through the town, and observed at our College of Magdalene the
posts new painted, and understand that the Vice Chancellor is
there this year. And so away for Huntingdon; and come to
Brampton at about noon, and there find my father and sister and
brother all well: and up and down to see the garden with my
father, and the house, and do altogether find it very pretty; and
I bless God that I am like to have such a pretty place to retire
to.
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