Chapter 2

Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter

Money I have not, nor can get

Money, which sweetens all things

Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder

Most flat dead sermon, both for matter and manner of delivery

Most homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured

Mr. William Pen a Quaker again

Much discourse, but little to be learned

Musique in the morning to call up our new-married people

Muske Millon

My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl

My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits

My heart beginning to falsify in this business

My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still

My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life

My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber

My wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang

My wife this night troubled at my leaving her alone so much

My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets

My head was not well with the wine that I drank to-day

My first attempt being to learn the multiplication-table

My intention to learn to trill

Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad in its terms

Never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head ached

Never, while he lives, truckle under any body or any faction

Never to trust too much to any man in the world

Never was known to keep two mistresses in his life (Charles II.)

Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said

New Netherlands to English rule, under the title of New York

No Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good

No manner of means used to quench the fire

No pleasure--only the variety of it

No money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it

No man is wise at all times

No man was ever known to lose the first time

No man knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy

No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw

No good by taking notice of it, for the present she forbears

Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses

None will sell us any thing without our personal security given

Nor would become obliged too much to any

Nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them

Nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife

Nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man

Not well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife

Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men

Not the greatest wits, but the steady man

Not when we can, but when we list

Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad

Not more than I expected, nor so much by a great deal as I ought

Not thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity

Not permit her begin to do so, lest worse should follow

Nothing in the world done with true integrity

Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon

Nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead!

Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King

Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design

Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars)

Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place

Offered to stop the fire near his house for such a reward

Officers are four years behind-hand unpaid

Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . . . .

Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe

Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it

Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped

Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood

Out also to and fro, to see and be seen

Painful to keep money, as well as to get it

Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists

Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every chimney in England

Parliament do agree to throw down Popery

Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat

Peace with France, which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like

Pen was then turned Quaker

Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits

Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for ladies to wear

Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house

Petition against hackney coaches

Pit, where the bears are baited

Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665)

Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here

Plague, forty last night, the bell always going

Play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense

Pleases them mightily, and me not at all

Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets

Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves

Pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it!

Presbyterians against the House of Lords

Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men

Pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him

Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean

Pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes

Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men

Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story

Pride and debauchery of the present clergy

Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques

Providing against a foule day to get as much money into my hands

Put up with too much care, that I have forgot where they are

Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists

Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen

Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them

Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my wife

Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses

Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer

Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's

Receive the applications of people, and hath presents

Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank

Reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to English rule

Rejoiced over head and ears in this good newes

Removing goods from one burned house to another

Reparation for what we had embezzled

Requisite I be prepared against the man's friendship

Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it

Resolve to live well and die a beggar

Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now

Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business

Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quaker

Rotten teeth and false, set in with wire

Sad sight it was: the whole City almost on fire

Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart

Said to die with the cleanest hands that ever any Lord Treasurer

Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content

Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport

Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves

Saying, that for money he might be got to our side

Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here

Says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth

Sceptic in all things of religion

Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"

Searchers with their rods in their hands

See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do

See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody

See how time and example may alter a man

Sent my wife to get a place to see Turner hanged

Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon

Sermon without affectation or study

Sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours ended also

Sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself

Sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long

Shakespeare's plays

Shame such a rogue should give me and all of us this trouble

She is conceited that she do well already

She used the word devil, which vexed me

She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet

She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please

She is a very good companion as long as she is well

She also washed my feet in a bath of herbs, and so to bed

She had got and used some puppy-dog water

She hath got her teeth new done by La Roche

She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her

She so cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she pleases

She finds that I am lousy

Short of what I expected, as for the most part it do fall out

Shy of any warr hereafter, or to prepare better for it

Sick of it and of him for it

Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors

Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a man to say nothing

Singing with many voices is not singing

Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we could not try him to play

Sir W. Pen did it like a base raskall, and so I shall remember

Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash

Slabbering my band sent home for another

Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney

So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night

So great a trouble is fear

So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch

So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body

So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed

So home to prayers and to bed

So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet

So to bed in some little discontent, but no words from me

So home and to supper with beans and bacon and to bed

So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel

So much wine, that I was even almost foxed

So good a nature that he cannot deny any thing

So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself

So home and to bed, where my wife had not lain a great while

So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed

So every thing stands still for money

Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no

Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house

Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her

Sorry in some respect, glad in my expectations in another respect

Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like

Sorry thing to be a poor King

Spares not to blame another to defend himself

Sparrowgrass

Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily

Spends his time here most, playing at bowles

Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion

Staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more

Statute against selling of offices

Staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband

Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name

Strange the folly of men to lay and lose so much money

Strange how civil and tractable he was to me

Street ordered to be continued, forty feet broad, from Paul's

Subject to be put into a disarray upon very small occasions

Such open flattery is beastly

Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet

Supper and to bed without one word one to another

Suspect the badness of the peace we shall make

Swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay

Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her

Talk very highly of liberty of conscience

Taught my wife some part of subtraction

Tax the same man in three or four several capacities

Tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping

Tell me that I speak in my dreams

That I might not seem to be afeared

That I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping

That I may look as a man minding business

The unlawfull use of lawfull things

The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester

The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken

"The Alchymist,"--[Comedy by Ben Jonson]

The barber came to trim me and wash me

The present Irish pronunciation of English

The world do not grow old at all

The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them

The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too

Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad

Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her

There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that

There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice

There did 'tout ce que je voudrais avec' her

There setting a poor man to keep my place

There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him

There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered

These young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad

These Lords are hard to be trusted

They were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them

They want where to set their feet, to begin to do any thing

This day churched, her month of childbed being out

This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond

This week made a vow to myself to drink no wine this week

This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes

This unhappinesse of ours do give them heart

This kind of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves

Those absent from prayers were to pay a forfeit

Those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour

Though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love him not

Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall

Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea

To Mr. Holliard's in the morning, thinking to be let blood

To be enjoyed while we are young and capable of these joys

To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered

To the Swan and drank our morning draft

To see the bride put to bed

Too much of it will make her know her force too much

Took physique, and it did work very well

Tory--The term was not used politically until about 1679

Tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her

Trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink

Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age

Trumpets were brought under the scaffold that he not be heard

Turn out every man that will be drunk, they must turn out all

Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up

Uncertainty of all history

Uncertainty of beauty

Unless my too-much addiction to pleasure undo me

Unquiet which her ripping up of old faults will give me

Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months

Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry

Up and took physique, but such as to go abroad with

Upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out

Venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's

Very angry we were, but quickly friends again

Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed

Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf

Vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself

Vices of the Court, and how the pox is so common there

Voyage to Newcastle for coles

Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird

Was kissing my wife, which I did not like

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repayre

We had a good surloyne of rost beefe

Weary of it; but it will please the citizens Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in.

What way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time

What I said would not hold water

What I had writ foule in short hand

What they all, through profit or fear, did promise

What a sorry dispatch these great persons give to business

What is there more to be had of a woman than the possessing her

Where money is free, there is great plenty

Where I find the worst very good

Where a piece of the Cross is

Where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers

Where I expect most I find least satisfaction

Wherein every party has laboured to cheat another

Which he left him in the lurch

Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it

Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!

Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession

Who is the most, and promises the least, of any man

Who we found ill still, but he do make very much of it

Who must except against every thing and remedy nothing

Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him

Willing to receive a bribe if it were offered me

Wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle

Wise man's not being wise at all times

Wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have

With much ado in an hour getting a coach home

With a shower of hail as big as walnuts

Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without

World sees now the use of them for shelter of men (fore-castles)

Would make a dogg laugh

Would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!

Would not make my coming troublesome to any

Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment

Wronged by my over great expectations

Ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of ye fire

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