He told me
the matter of the play that was intended for his abuse, wherein
they foolishly and sillily bring in two tables like that which he
hath made with a round hole In the middle in his closet to turn
himself in; [Vide Diary, July 4, 1668, where Sir W. C.'s round
table is described.] and he is to be in one of them as master,
and Sir J. Duncomb in the other, as his man or imitator: and
their discourse in those tables about the disposing of their
books and papers very foolish. But that that he is offended
with, is his being made so contemptible, as that any should dare
to make a gentleman a subject for the mirth of the world: and
that therefore he had told Tom Killigrew that he should tell his
actors, whoever they were, that did offer at any thing like
representing him, that he would not complain to my Lord
Chamberlain, which was too weak, nor get him beaten, as Sir
Charles Sedley is said to have done; but that he would cause his
nose to be cut. He told me how that the Duke of Buckingham did
himself some time since desire to join with him, of all men in
England, and did bid him propound to himself to be Chief Minister
of State, saying that he would bring it about, but that he
refused to have any thing to do with any faction; and that the
Duke of Buckingham did, within these few days, say that, of all
men in England, he would have chosen Sir W.
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