Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/april 1659-1660
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/april 1659-1660
Translated by Mynors Bright
March 1660: England holds its breath. Across the Channel, Charles Stuart waits in exile. In London, General Monk maneuvers in secret, and Parliament fractures into factions debating the monarchy's return. Through this crucible walks Samuel Pepys, thirty-six years old, a junior naval clerk with an itch for gossip, a hunger for advancement, and a diary he insists no one will ever read. What he leaves behind is something miraculous: a man dissected on the page with brutal honesty. Pepys chronicles the fall of the Commonwealth and the resurrection of the crown not from the heights of power, but from the messy middle, where rumors漂 his desk, where he bitches about his wife, where he lusts after women at plays and then agonizes about it afterward. He records the pulse of London itself: the fear, the opportunism, the desperate hope. This volume captures weeks that reshaped England, told by a man who could not know he was writing the most intimate portrait of an empire in transition. Pepys has been called the first modern Englishman. Read this and you'll understand why: his vanities, his anxieties, his relentless curiosity feel less like a 17th-century artifact and more like a confession from someone you know.
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“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.””
— Samuel Pepys
“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.””
— Samuel Pepys
“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.””
— Samuel Pepys
“And so to bed.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!””
— Samuel Pepys
“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.””
— Samuel Pepys
“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.””
— Samuel Pepys
“neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the stirrup, and his brains beat out.””
— Samuel Pepys
“I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.””
— Samuel Pepys
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