So to bed.
14th. Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing
the Exchange and Paul's and St. Fayth's; where strange how the
very sight of the stones falling from the top of the steeple do
make me sea-sick! But no hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all
this work of the steeple; which is very much. So from the Temple
I by coach to St. James's; where I find Sir W. Pen and Lord
Anglesy, who delivered this morning his answer to the Duke of
York, but I could not see it. But after being above with the
Duke of York, I down with Mr. Wren; and he and I read all over
that I had, and I expounded them to him, and did so order it that
I had them home with me, so that I shall to my heart's wish be
able to take a copy of them. After dinner I by water to White
Hall; and there, with the Cofferer and Sir Stephen Fox, attended
the Commissioners of the Treasury about bettering our fund; and
are promised it speedily.
15th. To the King's playhouse to see a new play, acted but
yesterday, a translation out of French by Dryden, called "The
Ladys a la Mode:" so mean a thing as, when they come to say it
would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it (Beeson
[Probably Beeston, who had been Manager of the Cockpit Theatre.
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