[293]Write his name in red letters on his pictures, with his widowe, to preserve.
[294]His widowe haz his picture, drawne very well and like, when a Cambridge schollar.
She has his picture when a Cambridge schollar, which ought to be engraven; for the pictures before his bookes are not at all like him.
<His habits.>
[295]His exercise was chiefly walking.
He was an early riser (scil. at 4 a clock manè); yea, after he lost his sight. He had a man read to him. The first thing he read was the Hebrew Bible, and that was[296] at 4 h. manè 1/2 h. +. Then he contemplated[297].
At 7 his man came to him again, and then read to him again, and wrote till dinner: the writing was as much as the reading. His (2) daughter, Deborah, could read to him Latin, Italian and French, and Greeke. <She> maried in Dublin to one Mr. Clarke (sells[298] silke, etc.); very like her father. The other sister is (1) Mary, more like her mother.
After dinner he used to walke 3 or four houres at a time (he alwayes had a garden where he lived); went to bed about 9.
Temperate man, rarely dranke between meales.
Extreme pleasant in his conversation, and[299] at dinner, supper, etc.; but satyricall.