



Produced by David Widger




QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM THE DIARY OF PEPYS




THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS


By Samuel Pepys






20s. in money, and what wine she
needed, for the burying him

A good handsome wench I kissed, the
first that I have seen

A fair salute on horseback, in
Rochester streets, of the lady

A most conceited fellow and not over
much in him

A conceited man, but of no Logique in
his head at all

A pretty man, I would be content to
break a commandment with him

A lady spit backward upon me by a
mistake

A play not very good, though commended
much

A cat will be a cat still

A book the Bishops will not let be
printed again

A most tedious, unreasonable, and
impertinent sermon

About two o'clock, too late and too
soon to go home to bed

Academy was dissolved by order of the
Pope

Act of Council passed, to put out all
<DW7>s in office

Advantage a man of the law hath over
all other people

Afeard of being louzy

After taking leave of my wife, which we
could hardly do kindly

After awhile I caressed her and parted
seeming friends

After many protestings by degrees I did
arrive at what I would

After oysters, at first course, a hash
of rabbits, a lamb

After a harsh word or two my wife and I
good friends

All ended in love

All made much worse in their report
among people than they are

All the fleas came to him and not to me

All divided that were bred so long at
school together

All may see how slippery places all
courtiers stand in

All things to be managed with faction

All the towne almost going out of towne
(Plague panic)

Ambassador--that he is an honest man
sent to lie abroad

Among  many lazy people that the
diligent man becomes necessary

An exceeding pretty lass, and right for
the sport

An offer of L500 for a Baronet's
dignity

And for his beef, says he, "Look how
fat it is"

And if ever I fall on it again, I
deserve to be undone

And a deal of do of which I am weary

And they did lay pigeons to his feet

And there, did what I would with her

And so to sleep till the morning, but
was bit cruelly

And so to bed and there entertained her
with great content

And feeling for a chamber-pott, there
was none

And with the great men in curing of
their claps

And so by coach, though hard to get it,
being rainy, home

Angry, and so continued till bed, and
did not sleep friends

Aptness I have to be troubled at any
thing that crosses me

Archbishop is a wencher, and known to
be so

As much his friend as his interest will
let him

As very a gossip speaking of her
neighbours as any body

As all other women, cry, and yet talk
of other things

As he called it, the King's seventeenth
whore abroad

As all things else did not come up to
my expectations

Asleep, while the wench sat mending my
breeches by my bedside

At least 12 or 14,000 people in the
street (to see the hanging)

At a loss whether it will be better for
me to have him die

Badge of slavery upon the whole people
(taxes)

Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where
the late great fire begun

Baseness and looseness of the Court

Bath at the top of his house

Beare-garden

Because I would not be over sure of any
thing

Before I sent my boy out with them, I
beat him for a lie

Begun to smell, and so I caused it to
be set forth (corpse)

Being there, and seeming to do
something, while we do not

Being cleansed of lice this day by my
wife

Being very poor and mean as to the
bearing with trouble

Being taken with a Psalmbook or
Testament

Below what people think these great
people say and do

Best fence against the Parliament's
present fury is delay

Better now than never

Bewailing the vanity and disorders of
the age

Bite at the stone, and not at the hand
that flings it

Bleeding behind by leeches will cure
him

Bold to deliver what he thinks on every
occasion

Book itself, and both it and them not
worth a turd

Bookseller's, and there looked for
Montaigne's Essays

Bottle of strong water; whereof now and
then a sip did me good

Bought for the love of the binding
three books

