paper. I think I have done all before, and remember nothing but this to-day
about glasses and spectacles and spectacle cases. I have no commission from
Stella, but the chocolate and handkerchiefs; and those are bought, and I
expect they will be soon sent. I have been with, and sent to, Mr. Sterne, two
or three times to know; but he was not within. Odds my life, what am I doing?
I must go write and do business.

4. I dined to-day at Kensington, with Addison, Steele, etc., came home, and
writ a short letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, to let him know the Queen has
granted the thing, etc. I writ in the Coffee-house, for I stayed at
Kensington till nine, and am plaguy weary; for Colonel Proud[13] was very ill
company, and I will never be of a party with him again; and I drank punch, and
that and ill company has made me hot.

5. I was with Mr. Harley from dinner to seven this night, and went to the
Coffee-house, where Dr. Davenant[14] would fain have had me gone and drink a
bottle of wine at his house hard by, with Dr. Chamberlen,[15] but the puppy
used so many words, that I was afraid of his company; and though we promised
to come at eight, I sent a messenger to him, that Chamberlen was going to a
patient, and therefore we would put it off till another time: so he, and the
Comptroller,[16] and I, were prevailed on by Sir Matthew Dudley to go to his
house, where I stayed till twelve, and left them. Davenant has been teasing
me to look over some of his writings that he is going to publish; but the
rogue is so fond of his own productions, that I hear he will not part with a
syllable; and he has lately put out a foolish pamphlet, called The Third Part
of Tom Double; to make his court to the Tories, whom he had left.

6. I was to-day gambling[17] in the City to see Patty Rolt, who is going to
Kingston, where she lodges; but, to say the truth, I had a mind for a walk to
exercise myself, and happened to be disengaged: for dinners are ten times