title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 4: 1663
author:  Samuel Pepys 
description: "[Pepys] was not only Charles II's chief naval administrator, but a keen amateur of learning and an indefatigable enthusiast of politics, music, theater, women, life. He sets down his daily experience with a journalist's eye for detail, something of a novelist's sensitivity and, since he is writing for himself, a delightful frankness."--"Publishers Weekly
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1664
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  April 1st. Up and to my office, where busy till noon, and then to the
  
  
  'Change, where I found all the merchants concerned with the presenting
  
  
  their complaints to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive them
  
  
  this afternoon against the Dutch. So home to dinner, and thence by
  
  
  coach, setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall; and
  
  
  coming too soon for the Tangier Committee walked to Mr. Blagrave for a
  
  
  song. I left long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he not
  
  
  being within, but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted with
  
  
  her, but would be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a week now
  
  
  and then. Back to White Hall, and in the Gallery met the D