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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 66: June/July 1668

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The diary presents daily entries by a government clerk that mix careful accounts of official business, committee meetings, and naval affairs with descriptions of domestic life, household expenses, short journeys, theatre visits, and social gatherings. It records practical observations of roads, bridges, churches, and local sights encountered while travelling, and notes personal interactions, friendships, and intimate encounters alongside reflections on managing servants and money. Entries move between administrative detail and lively scenes of entertainment and company, producing a chronological, day-by-day blend of work-related record, travelogue, and private memoir.

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     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 little
     Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand
     My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits
     My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour
     So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed
     Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet
     Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age
     Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry
     Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in.
     When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic
     Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise