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A sequence of daily entries records official duties, household matters, and social engagements across late winter days: trips by coach and boat, business at an office, attendance at theatre performances, visits to artists and instrument-makers, and interactions with friends and colleagues. Domestic scenes include marital quarrels, household servants, and family concerns. The author notes practical details about art commissions, scientific instruments, and administrative committees while offering candid reflections on moods, city mishaps, and the everyday rhythms of urban life.
Broken sort of people, that have not much to lose
But so fearful I am of discontenting my wife
By her wedding-ring, I suppose he hath married her at last
Have not much to lose, and therefore will venture all
His satisfaction is nothing worth, it being easily got
Nor was there any pretty woman that I did see, but my wife
With egg to keep off the glaring of the light