five in the afternoon
On the Thursday morning , before I was dressed , my man brought me the _ London Gazette _ that had been printed about six o'clock the evening before . The announcement as to the King 's health ran as follows . -LRB- I cut out the passage then and there and put it in my diary . -RRB- * * * * * `` At the Council Chamber , Whitehall , the 4th of February , 1684 -LSB- 1685 N. S. -RSB- , at five in the afternoon . `` The Lords of His Majesty 's most Honourable Privy Council have thought fit , for preventing false reports , I make known that His Majesty , upon Monday morning last , was seized with a violent fit that gave great cause to fear the issue of it ; but after some hours an amendment appeared , which with the blessing of God being improved by the application of proper and seasonable remedies , is now so advanced , that the physicians have this day as well as yesterday given this account to the Council , viz. -- That they conceive His Majesty to be in a condition of safety , and that he will in a few days be freed from his distemper . `` JOHN NICHOLAS . '' Yes , thought I , that is all very well ; but what of yesterday after five o'clock , and what of this morning ?