All
the news now is that Mr. Trevor is for certain to be Secretary in
Morrice's place, which the Duke of York did himself tell me
yesterday; and also that Parliament is to be adjourned to the 1st
of March, which do please me well, hoping thereby to get my
things in a little better order than I should have done; and the
less attendances at that end of the town in winter.
20th. To church, and thence home to dinner, staying till past
one o'clock for Harris, whom I invited, and to bring Shadwell the
poet with him; but they came not, and so a good dinner lost
through my own folly. And so to dinner alone, having since
church heard the boy read over Dryden's Reply to Sir R. Howard's
Answer about his Essay of Poesy, and a Letter in answer to that;
the last whereof is mighty silly, in behalf of Howard. The
Duchesse of Monmouth is at this time in great trouble of the
shortness of her lame leg, which is likely to grow shorter and
shorter, that she will never recover it.
21st. To St. James's, and there the Duke of York did of his own
accord come to me and tell me that he had read and do like of my
answers to the objections which he did give me the other day
about the Navy: and so did Sir W.
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