Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.: From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. Deciphered, with Additional Notes, by Rev. Mynors Bright ...Bickers and son, 1876 |
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... sicke last night and let blood , and so he durst not come away to - day . 7th . To White Hall , and there found the Duke and twenty more reading their commission ( of which I am , and was also sent to , to come ) for the Royall Fishery ...
... sicke last night and let blood , and so he durst not come away to - day . 7th . To White Hall , and there found the Duke and twenty more reading their commission ( of which I am , and was also sent to , to come ) for the Royall Fishery ...
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... sicke , and that by the sickness an interruption was made in his attendance upon him ; the King did not constantly call him , as he used to do , to his private council , only in businesses of the sea and the like ; but of late the King ...
... sicke , and that by the sickness an interruption was made in his attendance upon him ; the King did not constantly call him , as he used to do , to his private council , only in businesses of the sea and the like ; but of late the King ...
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... sicke in bed also . The poor woman in great sorrow , and entreats our friend- ship , which we shall , I think , in every thing do for her . I am sure I will . Thence to the Docke , and so home . At the office till 9 o'clock about Sir W ...
... sicke in bed also . The poor woman in great sorrow , and entreats our friend- ship , which we shall , I think , in every thing do for her . I am sure I will . Thence to the Docke , and so home . At the office till 9 o'clock about Sir W ...
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... sicke too . All our discourse is of a Dutch warr , and I find it is likely to come to it , for they are very high and desire not to compliment us at all , as far as I hear , but to send a good fleete to Guiny to oppose us there . I am ...
... sicke too . All our discourse is of a Dutch warr , and I find it is likely to come to it , for they are very high and desire not to compliment us at all , as far as I hear , but to send a good fleete to Guiny to oppose us there . I am ...
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... sicke , is dead . 2nd . To the ' Change , and there walked with Sir W. Warren , who after much discourse in general fell to talk how every body must live by their places , and that he was willing , if I desired it , that I should go ...
... sicke , is dead . 2nd . To the ' Change , and there walked with Sir W. Warren , who after much discourse in general fell to talk how every body must live by their places , and that he was willing , if I desired it , that I should go ...
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Page 238 - Of these the false Achitophel * was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
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Page 428 - To Mr. Lilly's, the painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of York against the Dutch. The Duke of York hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very finely they are done indeed.
Page 218 - The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at nine at night all, as they say, that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for air.
Page 203 - Sad news of the death of so many in the parish of the plague, forty last night. The bell always going.
Page 175 - down Holborne, the coachman I found to drive easily and easily, at last stood still, and came down hardly able to stand, and told me that he was suddenly struck very...
Page 37 - Up and to the office, where sat long, and at noon to dinner at home ; after dinner comes Mr. Pen to visit me, and staid an houre talking with me. I perceive something of learning he hath got, but a great deale, if not too much, of the vanity of the French garbe and affected manner of speech and gait. I fear all real profit he hath made of his travel will signify little.
Page 232 - Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
Page 408 - God knows when they will begin to act again ; but my business here was to see the inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines ; and, indeed, it was a sight worth seeing. But to see their clothes, and the various sorts, and what a mixture of things there was ; here a wooden leg, there a ruff, here a...
Page 236 - Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the Manor and his sisters. The window-cases, door-cases, and chimneys of all the house are marble.