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Rh He finds the rare bird eventually. Her name is Mercer. At the same time he engages a little page, a musician, sent him by his friend Captain Cooke, master of the Chapel Royal, who had given him four years' training. Pepys' delight is complete.

He soon wearies of the page. But Mercer grows more delightful every day.

Poor Mistress Pepys is jealous:

Coming in I find my wife plainly dissatisfied with me, that I can spend so much time with Mercer, teaching her to sing,