Seas, and deny traffick there to all ships but their owne, upon pain of
confiscation; which makes our merchants mad. Great doubt of two ships of
ours, the "Greyhound" and another, very rich, coming from the Streights,
for fear of the Turkes. Matters are made up between the Pope and the King
of France; so that now all the doubt is, what the French will do with
their armies. Thence home, and there found Captain Grove in mourning for
his wife, and Hawly, and they dined with me. After dinner, and Grove
gone, Hawly and I talked of his mistress, Mrs. Lane, and I seriously
advising him and inquiring his condition, and do believe that I shall
bring them together. By and by comes Mr. Moore, with whom much good
discourse of my Lord, and among other things told me that my Lord is
mightily altered, that is, grown very high and stately, and do not admit
of any to come into his chamber to him, as heretofore, and that I must not
think much of his strangeness to me, for it was the same he do to every
body, and that he would not have me be solicitous in the matter, but keep
off and give him now and then a visit and no more, for he says he himself
do not go to him now a days but when he sends for him, nor then do not
stay for him if he be not there at the hour appointed, for, says he, I do
find that I can stand upon my own legs and I will not by any over
submission make myself cheap to any body and contemptible, which was the
doctrine of the world that I lacked most, and shall follow it. I
discoursed with him about my money that my Lord hath, and the L1000 that I
stand bound with him in, to my cozen Thomas Pepys, in both which I will
get myself at liberty as soon as I can; for I do not like his being angry
and in debt both together to me; and besides, I do not perceive he looks
after paying his debts, but runs farther and farther in. He being gone,
my wife and I did walk an houre or two above in our chamber, seriously
talking of businesses. I told her my Lord owed me L700, and shewed her
the bond, and how I intended to carry myself to my Lord. She and I did
cast about how to get Captain Grove for my sister, in which we are mighty