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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665

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The diary presents a sequence of daily entries in which an urban public figure balances routine office work, account-keeping, and involvement with naval and governmental matters. Personal life appears alongside professional duties through visits to taverns and acquaintances, intimate relationships, financial calculations, and domestic arrangements. The writer records the advance of a contagious epidemic and its effects on households, neighborhoods, and public business, often mixing practical concerns with private anxieties. Short dated entries blend observational detail, social commentary, and occasional dreamlike or reflective passages to create a vivid, immediate portrait of everyday life.

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     About two o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed
     And all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself
     Baseness and looseness of the Court
     Being able to do little business (but the less the better)
     Contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse
     Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while
     Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no
     Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier
     For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons
     Had what pleasure almost I would with her
     Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil
     I have promised, but know not when I shall perform
     I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne
     Less he finds of difference between them and other men
     Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did
     Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her
     Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand
     Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent
     Plague, forty last night, the bell always going
     Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men
     So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch
     This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond
     What silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters

End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1665, by Samuel Pepys