Carteret's getting
credit, my Lord did once in his hearing say thus, which he
magnifies as a great saying--that impossible would be found
impossible at last; meaning that the King would run himself out
beyond all his credit and funds, and then we should too late find
it impossible; which is, he says, now come to pass.
15th. To the plaisterer's, and there saw the figure of my face
taken from the mould; and it is most admirably like, and I will
have another made before I take it away. At the 'Change I did at
my bookseller's shop accidentally fall into talk with Sir Samuel
Tuke [Sir Samuel Tuke, of Cressing Temple, Essex, Bart. was a
Colonel in Charles the First's army, and cosen to Mr. Evelyn. He
died at Somerset-house, January, 1673.] about trees and Mr.
Evelyn's garden; and I do find him, I think, a little conceited,
but a man of very fine discourse as any I ever heard almost;
which I was mighty glad of. In Suffolk-street lives Moll Davies;
and we did see her coach come for her to her door, a mighty
pretty fine coach. To White Hall; and there, by means of Mr.
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