[To forsooth is to address in a polite and ceremonious manner.
"Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any
case."--Ben Jonson's Poetaster, act iv., sc. 1.]

her, though he knew her well and she him. In fine we supped merry and so
to bed, there coming several of the Charles's men to see me before, I got
to bed. The page lay with me.

17th. Up, and breakfast with my Lady. Then come Captains Cuttance and
Blake to carry her in the barge on board; and so we went through Ham
Creeke to the Soverayne (a goodly sight all the way to see the brave ships
that lie here) first, which is a most noble ship. I never saw her before.
My Lady Sandwich, my Lady Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs. Grace, and Mary and
the page, my lady's servants and myself, all went into the lanthorn
together. From thence to the Charles, where my lady took great pleasure
to see all the rooms, and to hear me tell her how things are when my Lord
is there. After we had seen all, then the officers of the ship had
prepared a handsome breakfast for her, and while she was pledging my
Lord's health they give her five guns. That done, we went off, and then
they give us thirteen guns more. I confess it was a great pleasure to
myself to see the ship that I begun my good fortune in. From thence on
board the Newcastle, to show my Lady the difference between a great and a
small ship. Among these ships I did give away L7. So back again and went
on shore at Chatham, where I had ordered the coach to wait for us. Here I
heard that Sir William Batten and his lady (who I knew were here, and did
endeavour to avoyd) were now gone this morning to London. So we took
coach, and I went into the coach, and went through the town, without
making stop at our inn, but left J. Goods to pay the reckoning. So I rode
with my lady in the coach, and the page on the horse that I should have
rid on--he desiring it. It begun to be dark before we could come to