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.

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

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

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