Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 226 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S..

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 226 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S..

3rd.  To the Paynter’s and sat and had more of my picture done; but it do not please me, for I fear it will not be like me.  At noon from thence to the Wardrobe, where dinner not being ready Mr. Moore and I to the Temple about my little business at Mr. Turner’s, and so back again, and dinner being half done I went in to my Lady, where my Lady Wright was at dinner with her, and all our talk about the great happiness that my Lady Wright says there is in being in the fashion and in variety of fashions, in scorn of others that are not so, as citizens’ wives and country gentlewomen, which though it did displease me enough, yet I said nothing to it.  Thence by water to the office through bridge, being carried by him in oars that the other day rowed in a scull faster than my oars to the Towre, and I did give him 6d.  At the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in “Mare Clausum” till bedtime, and so to bed, but had a very bad night by dreams of my wife’s riding with me and her horse throwing her and breaking her leg, and then I dreamed that I . . [was] in such pain that I waked with it, and had a great deal of pain there a very great while till I fell asleep again, and such apprehension I had of it that when I rose and trussed up myself thinking that it had been no dream.  Till in the daytime I found myself very well at ease, and remembered that I did dream so, and that Mr. Creed was with me, and that I did complain to him of it, and he said he had the same pain in his left that I had in my right . . . which pleased me much to remember.

4th.  To Whitehall with both Sir Williams, thence by water, where I saw a man lie dead upon Westminster Stairs that had been drowned yesterday.  To the Temple, and thence to Mr. Phillips and got my copy of Sturtlow lands.  So back to the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, and there met the two Sir Williams and Col.  Treswell and Mr. Falconer, and dined there at Sir W. Pen’s cost, and after dinner by water to Cheapside to the painter’s, and there found my wife, and having sat a little she and I by coach to the Opera and Theatre, but coming too late to both, and myself being a little out of tune we returned, and I settled to read in “Mare Clausum “till bedtime, and so to bed.

5th.  This morning I went early to the Paynter’s and there sat for my picture the fourth time, but it do not yet please me, which do much trouble me.  Thence to the Treasury Office, where I found Sir W. Batten come before me, and there we sat to pay off the St. George.  By and by came Sir W. Pen, and he and I staid while Sir W. Batten went home to dinner, and then he came again, and Sir W. Pen and I went and dined at my house, and had two mince pies sent thither by our order from the messenger Slater, that had dressed some victuals for us, and so we were very merry, and after dinner rode out in his coach, he to Whitehall, and my wife and I to the Opera, and saw “Hamlett” well performed.  Thence to the Temple and Mrs. Turner’s (who continues still very ill), and so home and to bed.

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