Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/june 1663
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/june 1663
Translated by Mynors Bright
You will not find a more honest narrator in English literature. Samuel Pepys records everything: his lusts, his anxieties, his petty jealousies, his boundless curiosity about warships and theatres and the price of butter. This volume chronicles May and June 1663, where Pepys wrangles with his wife's dancing instructor (a man who has awakened something fierce and irrational in him), manages the family estate at Brampton, and tend the simmering tensions at the Navy Board that will soon erupt into war with the Dutch. Through it all runs his unending appetite for London: its plays, its gossip, its courtly maneuvering. Pepys is vain, insecure, and occasionally cruel. He knows this about himself and writes it down anyway. That transparency is what makes the diary not merely a historical document but a literary masterpiece. It is seventeenth-century life rendered with the intimacy of someone who cannot stop watching, judging, wanting, recording.
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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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