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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... thither , and paid my double share besides , which is 18s . Very merry all , as much as I could be in such sorry company . Great discourse of the fray yester- day in Moorefields , how the butchers at first did beat the weavers ( between ...
... thither , and paid my double share besides , which is 18s . Very merry all , as much as I could be in such sorry company . Great discourse of the fray yester- day in Moorefields , how the butchers at first did beat the weavers ( between ...
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... thither , and saw it acted . It is true , for want of practice , they had many of them forgot their parts a little ; but Betterton and my poor Ianthe outdo all the world . There is nothing more taking in the world with me than that play ...
... thither , and saw it acted . It is true , for want of practice , they had many of them forgot their parts a little ; but Betterton and my poor Ianthe outdo all the world . There is nothing more taking in the world with me than that play ...
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... thither . 20th . Met by appointment with Captain Poyntz , | who hath some place , or title to a place , belonging to gameing , and so I discoursed with him about the business of our improving of the Lotterys , to the King's benefit ...
... thither . 20th . Met by appointment with Captain Poyntz , | who hath some place , or title to a place , belonging to gameing , and so I discoursed with him about the business of our improving of the Lotterys , to the King's benefit ...
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... thither anon come all the Gresham College , and a great deal of noble company : and the new instrument was brought called the Arched Viall , where being tuned with lute - strings , and played on with kees like an organ , a piece of ...
... thither anon come all the Gresham College , and a great deal of noble company : and the new instrument was brought called the Arched Viall , where being tuned with lute - strings , and played on with kees like an organ , a piece of ...
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... thither I to them . Presently the stop is removed , and then going out to find my coach , I could not find it , for it was gone with the rest ; so I fain to go through the darke and dirt over the bridge , and my leg fell in a hole broke ...
... thither I to them . Presently the stop is removed , and then going out to find my coach , I could not find it , for it was gone with the rest ; so I fain to go through the darke and dirt over the bridge , and my leg fell in a hole broke ...
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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.
Page 227 - I went away, and walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein, dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to bury it ; but only set a watch there all day and night, that nobody should go thither or come thence : this disease making us more cruel to one another than we are to dogs.
Page 98 - Mr. Moore to see me, and he and I to my Lord of Oxford's, but not finding him within Mr. Moore and I to "Love in a Tubb,"1 which is very merry, but only so by gesture, not wit at all, which methinks is beneath the House.
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 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 295 - Indian incke. water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, and the manner of it which is very pretty, and good things done with it.
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 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.