I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

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

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

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

I know not how to abstain from reading.