Up betimes to see Mr. Pursal of the King's Musick, and tell him of my troubles with the wife. Upon hearing, he gave me a most piteous Bastinado with the stick he was used to beat Time with, calling me an arrant fool and bully-boy, and loudly proclaiming he would Klap me (a Dutch word, whose meaning is evident from its Sound) upside mine Head until I learned some Sense.