Samuel Pepys

“ Searchers with their rods in their hands See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody See how time and example may alter a man Sent my wife to get a place to see Turner hanged Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon Sermon without affectation or study Sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours ended also Sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself Sermon ”

“ Pierce to let him blood Few in any age that do mind anything that is abstruse Find that now and then a little difference do no hurte Find it a base copy of a good originall, that vexed me Find myself to over-value things when a child Finding my wife not sick, but yet out of order Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up Fire grow ”

“ First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March Fool's play with which all publick things are done For my quiet would not enquire into it For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons For a land-tax and against a general excise For I will not be inward with him that is open to another For I will be hanged before I seek to him, unless I see I need Force a man to swear against himself Forced to change gold, 8s. ”

“ The barber came to trim me and wash me The present Irish pronunciation of English The world do not grow old at all The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad Thence to Mrs. ”

“ Good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war (A Peace) Good writers are not admired by the present Got her upon my knee (the coach being full) and played with her Great thaw it is not for a man to walk the streets Great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch Great deale of tittle tattle discourse to little purpose Great many silly stories they tell of their sport Greater number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue Greatest businesses are done so superficially Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay Had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently! ”

“ Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood Out also to and fro, to see and be seen Painful to keep money, as well as to get it Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists Parliament hath voted 2s. ”