Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667
Translated by Mynors Bright
September 1667 finds London in the aftermath of catastrophe. The Dutch have just raided the Medway, burning English ships at Chatham in a humiliation that still reverberates through the court. Samuel Pepys, naval administrator by day and secret diary-keeper by night, records it all with the compulsive urgency of a man who knows he's witnessing history and suspects no one else will tell it straight. This volume captures him navigating political fallout, fretting over his failing eyesight, attending plays where actresses flutter their fans, and dissecting the labyrinthine romances of King Charles's mistresses with the breathless intensity of a modern tabloid columnist. Pepys is vain, anxious, often ridiculous, and absolutely indispensable. His diary isn't history from on high, it's history from inside a man who eats a bad dinner, worries about his wife suspecting his affairs, and accidentally sees the King himself looking flushed at a house party. Three centuries later, nobody has written a more honest sentence about what it feels like to live through interesting times.
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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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