A shorter Pepys by Pepys Samuel

Author:Pepys, Samuel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and sons
Published: 1955-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

of the victory is too great lor me presently to comprehend.

June gth. —To White Hall, and in my way met with Mr. Moore, who eases me in one point wherein I was troubled ; which was, that I heard of nothing said or done by my Lord Sandwich : but he tells me that Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, did hear the King say that my Lord Sandwich had done nobly and worthily. The King, it seems, is much troubled at the fall of my Lord Falmouth ; but I do not meet with any man else that so much as wishes him alive again, the world conceiving him a man of too much pleasure to do the King any good, or offer any good office to him. But I hear, of all hands, he is confessed to be a man of great honour, that did show it in this his going with the Duke, the most that ever any man did. Home, where my people busy to make ready a supper against night for some guests, in lieu of my stone-feasts. With my tailor to buy a silk suit, which, though I had one lately, yet I do, for joy of the good news we have lately had of our victory over the Dutch, which makes me willing to spare myself something extraordinary in clothes ; and, after long resolution of having nothing but black, I did buy a coloured siik ferrandin.

June loth. —In the evening home to supper ; and there, to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come into the City, though it hath, these three or four weeks since its beginning, been wholly out of the City ; but where should it begin but in my good friend and neighbour's. Dr. Burnett, in Fenchurch Street : which, in both points, troubles me mightily.

June 22nd. —In great pain whether to send m_y mother into the country to-day or no ; I hearing, by my people, that the poor wretch hath a mind to stay a little longer, and I cannot blame her. At last, I resolved to put it to her, and she agreed to go, because of the sickness in town, and my intentions of removing

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