[Footnote 2: 'abroun' (i.e. auburn) written above 'browne'.]
[Footnote 3: 'exceeding' above 'very'.]
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He was an early riser: Sc: 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 at 4'h. manè 1/2'h.+. Then he contemplated. At 7 his man came to him again & then read to him and wrote till dinner: the writing was as much as the reading. His daughter Deborah 2[1] could read to him Latin, Italian, & French, & Greeke; married in Dublin to one M'r Clarke [sells silke &c[2] very like her father. The other sister is Mary 1[1], more like her mother. After dinner he usd to walke 3 or 4 houres at a time, he alwayes had a Garden where he lived: went to bed about 9. Temperate, rarely drank between meales. Extreme pleasant in his conversation, & at dinner, supper &c: but Satyricall. He pronounced the letter R very hard. a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt. from Jo. Dreyden.
[Footnote 1: '2' and '1', marking seniority, above the names.]
[Footnote 2: 'sells silke &c' above 'a Mercer'.]
[Sidenote: Litera Canina.]
He had a delicate tuneable Voice & had good skill: his father instructed him: he had an Organ in his house: he played on that most. His exercise was chiefly walking.
He was visited much by learned[1]: more then he did desire.
[Footnote 1: 'by learned' added above the line.]