Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1667/68 [sp72g10.txt]
Act against Nonconformists and Papists
Bookseller’s, and there looked for Montaigne’s
Essays
Bought Montaigne’s Essays, in English
But if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it
Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such
a coward
I know not how in the world to abstain from reading
Inventing a better theory of musique
King, “it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another
speech to them”
Never saw so many sit four hours together to hear
any man
Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to
pay the men
Slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes
To be enjoyed while we are young and capable of these
joys
Tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her
Trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to
drink
Uncertainty of beauty
Without importunity or the contrary
Diary of Samuel Pepys, April 1668 [sp73g10.txt]
Best fence against the Parliament’s present
fury is delay
But this the world believes, and so let them
Coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.
Ever have done his maister better service than to
hang for him?
Making their own advantages to the disturbance of
the peace
Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists
Rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account
book
Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport
Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession
Work that is not made the work of any one man
Diary of Samuel Pepys, may 1668 [sp74g10.txt]
And will not kiss a woman since his wife’s death
Beating of a poor little dog to death, letting it
lie
City to be burned, and the Papists to cut our throats
Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola
Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some
curds
Eat some butter and radishes
Little company there, which made it very unpleasing
So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself
There setting a poor man to keep my place
Whom I find in bed, and pretended a little not well
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul 1668 [sp75g10.txt]
At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart
sad
Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults
But get no ground there yet
Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the
same water
City pay him great respect, and he the like to the
meanest
Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me
also
Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord
Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor,
1s. 6d.
Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in
How natural it is for us to slight people out of power
I could have answered, but forbore
Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but