To Bed

At noon to the coffee-house, where excellent discourse with Sir
W. Petty; who proposed it, as a thing that is truly questionable,
whether there really be any difference between waking and dreaming --
that it is hard not only to tell how we know when we do a thing really
or in a dream, but also what the difference between one and the other.

I by water to Westminster Hall and there did see Mrs Lane and de
là, elle and I to the cabaret at the Cloche in the street du
Roy; and there, after some caresses, je l'ay foutée sous de la
chaise deux times, and the last to my great pleasure; mais j'ai grand
peur que je l'ay fait faire aussi elle même. Mais after I had
done, elle commençait parler as before and I did perceive that
je n'avais fait rien de danger à elle. Et avec ça, I
came away; and though I did make grand promises à la contraire,
nonobstant je ne la verrai pas long time. So home to supper and to bed
-- with my mind un peu troublé pour ce que j'ai fait to
day. But I hope it will be la dernière de toute my vie.

To the coffee-house, where I heard Lieutenant-Collonell Baron tell
very good stories of his travels over the high hills in Asia a bove
the cloudes. How clear the heaven is above them. How thick, like a
mist, the way is through the cloud, that wets like a sponge one's
clothes. The ground above the clouds all dry and parched, nothing in
the world growing, it being only a dry earth. Yet not so hot above as
below the clouds. The stars at night most delicate bright and a fine
clear blue sky. But cannot see the earth at any time through the
clouds, but the clouds look like a world below you.

I betimes to bed. And there fell into a most mighty sweat in the
night, about 11 a-clock; and there, knowing what money I have in the
house and hearing a noise, I began to sweat worse and worse, till I
melted almost to water. I rung, and could not in half an hour make
either of the wenches hear me; and this made me fear the more, lest
they might be gag'd; and then I begin to think that there was some
design in a stone being flung at the window over our stairs this
evening, by which the thiefs meant to try what looking there would be
after them and know our company. These thoughts and fears I had, and
do hence apprehend the fears of all rich men that are covetous and
have much money by them. At last Jane rose and then I understand it
was only the dog wants a lodging and so made a noyse.

I having from my wife and the maids complaints made of the boy, I
called him up and with my whip did whip him till I was not able to
stir, and yet I could not make him confess any of the lies that they
tax him with. At last, not willing to let him go away a conqueror, I
took him in task again and pulled off his frock to his shirt, and
whipped him till he did confess that he did drink the whay, which he
hath denied. And pulled a pinke, and above all, did lay the
candlesticke upon the ground in his chamber, which he hath denied this
quarter of this year. I confess it is one of the greatest wonders that
I ever met with, that such a little boy as he could be able to suffer
half so much as he did to maintain a lie. But I think I must be forced
to put him away. So to bed, with my arme very weary.