Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

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.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

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

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

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.