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'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and to bed.'
'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'
'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'
'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second part of "The Seige of Rhodes" with great delight.'