So we walked together,
and I took this occasion to invite him to dinner to my house, and
he readily appointed Friday next; which I shall be glad to have
over to his content, he having never yet eat a bit of my bread.
Thence to the Duke of York on the King's side, and meeting Mr.
Sidney Montagu and Sheres, a small invitation served their turn
to carry them to London, where I paid Sheres his 100l. given him
for his pains in drawing the plate of Tangier fortifications. At
White Hall, and there in the Queenes withdrawing-room invited my
Lord Peterborough to dine with me with my Lord Sandwich, who
readily accepted it.
19th. To the King's house, to see " Horace;" [There were two
translations about this period of the "Horace" of P. Corneille;
one by Charles Cotton, the other (which was performed at Court,)
by Catherine Phillips, the fifth act being added by Sir John
Denham.] this the third day of its acting: a silly tragedy; but
Lacy hath made a farce of several dances--between each act one:
but his words are but silly and invention not extraordinary as to
the dances; only some Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of
a Hamburgh sow.
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