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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S. Volume 3; From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord

Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S. Volume 3; From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord

Pepys, Samuel
Bright, Mynors

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ISBN10: 1459075285
ISBN13: 9781459075283
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.28 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1876 Excerpt: ... by they to dinner, and all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself, which, though I could not in modesty expect, yet, God forgive my pride! I was sorry I was there, that Sir W. Batten should say that he could sit down where I could not, though he had twenty times more reason than I, but this was my pride and folly. I down and walked with Mr. Castle, he and I by and by to dinner mighty nobly, and the King having dined, he came down, and I went in the barge with him, I sitting at the door. Down to Woolwich (and there I just saw and kissed my wife, and saw some of her painting, which is very curious; and away again to the King) and back again with him in the barge, hearing him and the Duke talk, and seeing and observing their manner of discourse. And God forgive me! though I admire them with all the duty possible, yet the more a man considers and observes them, the less he finds of difference between them and other men, though (blessed be God!) they are both princes of great nobleness and spirits. The Duke of Monmouth is the most skittish leaping gallant that ever I saw, always in action, vaulting or leaping, or clambering. Thence mighty full of the honour of this day, took coach and to Kate Joyce's, and spoke with Anthony, who tells me he likes well of my proposal for Pall to Harman, but I fear that less than 500/. will not be taken and that I shall not be able to give. After a little other discourse and the sad news of the death of so many in the parish of the plague, forty last night, the bell always going, I back to the Exchange, where I went up and sat talking with my beauty, Mrs. Batelier, a great while, who is indeed one of the finest women I ever saw in my life. I home to set my Journall for these four days in order, they being four days of as...

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