Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.
Samuel Pepys
Before I went to bed, I sat ...
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Samuel Pepys
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
Samuel Pepys
At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.
Samuel Pepys
