To the office, and after some
other business done we fell to mine. The Surveyor began to be a
little brisk at the beginning; but when I came to the point to
touch him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he
became as calm as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did,
their satisfaction, and cried excuse: and so all made friends;
and their acknowledgment put into writing and delivered into Sir
J. Minnes's hand, to be kept there for the use of the board or
us, when I shall call for it; they desiring it might be so, that
I might not make use of it to the prejudice of the Surveyor, whom
I had an advantage over by his extraordinary folly in this
matter. So Middleton desiring to be friends, I forgave him; and
all mighty quiet, and fell to talk of other stories, and there
staid all of us till nine or ten at night (more than ever we did
in our lives before together).
19th. My wife and I by Hackney to the King's playhouse, and
there, the pit being full, sat in the box above, and saw
"Catiline's Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play
of much good sense and words to read, but that do appear the
worst upon the stage, I mean the least diverting, that ever I saw
any, though most fine in clothes; and a fine scene of the Senate
and of a fight as ever I saw in my life.
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