Paul's Pepys proceeded in 1650 to Magdelene College, Cambridge. Among his fellow students at Magdalene was John Dryden (a remote relation), with whom he maintained a lifelong acquaintanceship. At Cambridge Pepys composed a romance called "Love a Cheat," which he destroyed ten years later: "I wondered a little at myself at my vein at the time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now if I would try." From about the age of twenty, Pepys suffered from kidney stones. On 26 March 1658, with "the pain growing insupportable," Pepys underwent major surgery and was relieved of a stone about the size of a tennis ball. He honored the date of his delivery with an annual feast.
Pepys was distantly connected to the powerful and wealthy Mountagu family. During the late 1650s, sometime after he took his bachelor's degree in March 1654, and while also employed as a clerk to George Downing in the Exchequer, Pepys served as secretary and man of business to Edward Mountagu (later first earl of Sandwich).
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