Red-letter Days of Samuel PepysSidgwick and Jackson, 1910 - 299 pages |
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... Mercer's health first ; which I pledged with my hat off . We supped at home , and very merry . And then about nine to Mrs. Mercer's gate , where the fire and boys expected us , and her son had provided abundance of serpents 25 MR ...
... Mercer's health first ; which I pledged with my hat off . We supped at home , and very merry . And then about nine to Mrs. Mercer's gate , where the fire and boys expected us , and her son had provided abundance of serpents 25 MR ...
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... Mercer's , and there mighty merry , smutting one another with candle grease and soot , till most of us were like ... Mercer put on a suit of Tom's , like a boy , and mighty mirth we had , and Mercer danced a jigg ; and Nan Wright ...
... Mercer's , and there mighty merry , smutting one another with candle grease and soot , till most of us were like ... Mercer put on a suit of Tom's , like a boy , and mighty mirth we had , and Mercer danced a jigg ; and Nan Wright ...
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... Mercer up by water to Barne Elmes , where we walked by moonshine , and called at Lambeth , and drank and had cold meat in the boat , and did eat and sang , and down home , by almost twelve at night , very fine and pleasant , only could ...
... Mercer up by water to Barne Elmes , where we walked by moonshine , and called at Lambeth , and drank and had cold meat in the boat , and did eat and sang , and down home , by almost twelve at night , very fine and pleasant , only could ...
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... Mercer's health first ; which I pledged with my hat off . We supped at home , and very merry . And then about nine to Mrs. Mercer's gate , where the fire and boys expected us , and her son had provided abundance of serpents 25 MR ...
... Mercer's health first ; which I pledged with my hat off . We supped at home , and very merry . And then about nine to Mrs. Mercer's gate , where the fire and boys expected us , and her son had provided abundance of serpents 25 MR ...
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... Mercer's , and there mighty merry , smutting one another with candle grease and soot , till most of us were like ... Mercer put on a suit of Tom's , like a boy , and mighty mirth we had , and Mercer danced a jigg ; and Nan Wright ...
... Mercer's , and there mighty merry , smutting one another with candle grease and soot , till most of us were like ... Mercer put on a suit of Tom's , like a boy , and mighty mirth we had , and Mercer danced a jigg ; and Nan Wright ...
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Page 10 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Page 152 - This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
Page 163 - I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home : seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Page 53 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
Page 74 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Page 95 - ... now, all otherwise: then, the Queen seldom and the King never would come; now, not the King only for state, but all civil people do think they may come as well as any.
Page 158 - I went away and walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein, dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to bury it ; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody should go thither or come thence : this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.
Page 165 - So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire-drops.
Page 78 - I had for them, after oysters, at first course a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. Next a great dish of roasted fowl, cost me about 30s., and a tart ; and then fruit and cheese.
Page 62 - Soon as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the fireside, wishing her a merry new year.