Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/may 1661
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/may 1661
Translated by Mynors Bright
April 1661. King Charles II is crowned in a city still reeling from revolution, and Samuel Pepys is everywhere: pressing through crowds to watch the coronation procession, dining with fellow naval clerks, quarreling with his father, sneaking to see plays his wife would never forgive him for, and writing it all down in a diary no one was ever meant to see. This volume captures Pepys at his most vivid. He records the restored monarchy's glittering pageantry while also documenting the smaller anxieties that consume him: money troubles, office politics at the Navy Board, whether his new coat fits properly. He is vain, curious, occasionally awful, and endlessly fascinating. He admits to lust and jealousy, to boredom in church, to spending money he doesn't have on books and music. Three and a half centuries later, he reads like a friend. The diary survives as both confession and chronicle. Pepys offers an unparalleled window into Restoration London: the smell of the Thames, the buzz of coffeehouses, the tension between old Puritans and new royalists. But what elevates it beyond historical document is his frank, often funny self-scrutiny. He is the first modern English writer who truly sounds like a person.
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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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