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
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