31st.  I went to my father’s thinking to have met with my cozen John Holcroft, but he came not, but to my great grief I found my father and mother in a great deal of discontent one with another, and indeed my mother is grown now so pettish that I know not how my father is able to bear with it.  I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man.  There I dined, and so home and to the office all the afternoon till 9 at night, and then home and to supper and to bed.  Great talk now how the Parliament intend to make a collection of free gifts to the King through the Kingdom; but I think it will not come to much.

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     A little while since a very likely man to live as any I knew
     Being sure never to see the like again in this world
     Believe that England and France were once the same continent
     Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652
     Did trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose
     Difference there will be between my father and mother about it
     Eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life
     Foolery to take too much notice of such things
     Frogs and many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed
     I could not forbear to love her exceedingly
     I had the opportunity of kissing Mrs. Rebecca very often
     I was as merry as I could counterfeit myself to be
     I went in and kissed them, demanding it as a fee due
     Jealousy of him and an ugly wench that lived there lately
     Lay with her to-night, which I have not done these eight (days)
     Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian
     She would not let him come to bed to her out of jealousy
     So home and to bed, where my wife had not lain a great while
     The barber came to trim me and wash me
     Troubled to see my father so much decay of a suddain
     What people will do tomorrow
     What they all, through profit or fear, did promise
     Who seems so inquisitive when my, house will be made an end of

The diary of Samuel Pepys M.A.  F.R.S.

CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV.  MYNORS BRIGHT M.A.  LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

(Unabridged)

WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE’S NOTES

Editedwith additions by

Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A.

Diary of Samuel Pepys. 
June, July & August
1661