I See It Is Impossible For The

Poorpeoplestaying Intheir Houses Aslong Astill Thevery Fire Touched Them, And Then Running Into Boats Or Clambering From One Pair Of Stair By The Waterside To Another. And Among Other Things, The Poor Pigeons I Perceive Were Loath To Leave Their Houses, But Hovered About The Windows And Balconies Till They Were Some Of Them Burned, Their Wings, And Fell Down.

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.

Strange To Say What Delight We Married People Have To See These Poor Fools Decoyed Into Our Condition.

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.

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.