Quotes and Images From The Diary of Samuel PepysPepys, Samuel
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Quotes and Images From The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Pepys, Samuel
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King himself minding nothing but his
ease
King is not at present in purse to do
King is mighty kind to these his
bastard children
King the necessity of having, at least,
a show of religion
King be desired to put all Catholiques
out of employment
King still do doat upon his women, even
beyond all shame
King is offended with the Duke of
Richmond's marrying
King of France did think other princes
fit for nothing
King governed by his lust, and women,
and rogues about him
King do tire all his people that are
about him with early rising
King's service is undone, and those
that trust him perish
King's Proclamation against drinking,
swearing, and debauchery
Kingdom will fall back again to a
commonwealth
Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my
[rump]"
Know yourself to be secure, in being
necessary to the office
L'escholle des filles, a lewd book
Lady Castlemayne is compounding with
the King for a pension
Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and
drudge
Lady Batten to give me a spoonful of
honey for my cold
Lady Castlemaine is still as great with
the King
Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt
Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher
command over the King
Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this
time as much as ever
Laissez nous affaire--Colbert
Last day of their doubtfulness touching
her being with child
Last act of friendship in telling me of
my faults also
Laughing and jeering at every thing
that looks strange
Lay long caressing my wife and talking
Lay long in bed talking and pleasing
myself with my wife
Lay chiding, and then pleased with my
wife in bed
Lay with her to-night, which I have not
done these eight (days)
Learned the multiplication table for
the first time in 1661
Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a
woman be a maid or no
Lechery will never leave him
Let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I
being exceedingly full
Let her brew as she has baked
Lewdness and beggary of the Court
Liability of a husband to pay for goods
supplied his wife
Liberty of speech in the House
Listening to no reasoning for it, be it
good or bad
Little content most people have in the
peace
Little children employed, every one to
do something
Little worth of this world, to buy it
with so much pain
Long cloaks being now quite out
Look askew upon my wife, because my
wife do not buckle to them
Lord! to see the absurd nature of
Englishmen
Lord! in the dullest insipid manner
that ever lover did
Lust and wicked lives of the nuns
heretofore in England
Luxury and looseness of the times
Lying a great while talking and
sporting in bed with my wife
Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian
Made to drink, that they might know him
not to be a Roundhead
Made him admire my drawing a thing
presently in shorthand
Magnifying the graces of the nobility
and prelates
Make a man wonder at the good fortune
of such a fool
Man cannot live without playing the
knave and dissimulation
Matters in Ireland are full of
discontent
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