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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667

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A sequence of daily entries records routine office work, bookkeeping and correspondence alongside social life in London: visits to plays, dinners, and acquaintances; worries about shipping and naval affairs; household quarrels and marital tensions; concerns over health and eyesight; and practical matters such as receipts, payments, and personnel changes. The tone mixes exact administrative detail with lively descriptions of food, entertainments, and gossip, offering a close, day-by-day view of public business and private domestic life.

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     Beginnings of discontents take so much root between us
     Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life
     Hugged, it being cold now in the mornings . . . .
     I would not enquire into anything, but let her talk
     Ill-bred woman, would take exceptions at anything any body said
     Kingdom will fall back again to a commonwealth
     Little content most people have in the peace
     Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad in its terms
     Never laughed so in all my life. I laughed till my head ached
     Nobody knows which side will be uppermost
     Sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours ended also
     Spends his time here most, playing at bowles
     Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her
     The gates of the City shut, it being so late
     They want where to set their feet, to begin to do any thing
     Troubled to think what trouble a rogue may without cause give
     Wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have

End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1667, by Samuel Pepys