Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.