in these \{...}3 or for/ yeers, I much delighted especially at C[hristmas?] to eate to harten up my selfe in m after noones, I began Geneses at \[illeg]/ Chr[i]st-[mas]

I wrot \my/ cutwork sam-[pler]

about this times being proud of my selfe and looking often[?] in a glasse : I after fel downe and caute a hurte which was a blem ish to me for some t[ime] after.

my b[rother] was ill

wee played abroad with hodkings wife

I quilted me a ball

I r[emember] the merth we had at a poore lodger[?] house

I did cutwork

as I take it in this yeare and about\and/ or after this time I delighted in reading our Saviours sermon in the mount mat[thew] and in desiering to doe after it in som smale measure, my God I praise thee*

I wrot my f[ather] a hancreche