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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 13: November/December 1661

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The diary chronicles a naval administrator's daily life over two months, blending professional duties at government offices with private pursuits and social engagements. Entries detail meetings and paperwork, theatrical outings, dinners and drinking, music lessons, legal and financial concerns, domestic incidents and family interactions, and news conveyed in letters. The tone mixes practical record-keeping with candid personal observation, offering frequent small vignettes of workplace routine, household management, and city social life in a lively, day-by-day format.

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     After dinner my wife comes up to me and all friends again
     Ambassador—that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad
     As all things else did not come up to my expectations
     Coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife
     Did extremely beat him, and though it did trouble me to do it
     Dominion of the Sea
     Exclaiming against men's wearing their hats on in the church
     From some fault in the meat to complain of my maid's sluttery
     Gamester's life, which I see is very miserable, and poor
     Get his lady to trust herself with him into the tavern
     Good wine, and anchovies, and pickled oysters (for breakfast)
     Like a passionate fool, I did call her whore
     My wife and I fell out
     Oliver Cromwell as his ensign
     Seemed much glad of that it was no more
     Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we could not try him to play
     Strange the folly of men to lay and lose so much money
     The unlawfull use of lawfull things
     Took occasion to fall out with my wife very highly
     Took physique, and it did work very well
     Tory—The term was not used politically until about 1679
     We had a good surloyne of rost beefe