title: Sermons from the parables
author: Clovis Gillham Chappell
description: Used - Very Good Sermons from the parables [Jan 01, 1979] Chappell, Clovis Gillham
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  March 1st (Lord's day). Up and walked to White Hall, to the Chappell,
  
  
  where preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a great witt;
  
  
  but he read his sermon every word, and that so brokenly and so low, that
  
  
  nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat
  
  
  near. But, which was strange, he forgot to make any prayer before
  
  
  sermon, which all wonder at, but they impute it to his forgetfulness.
  
  
  After sermon a very fine anthem; so I up into the house among the
  
  
  courtiers, seeing the fine ladies, and, above all, my Lady Castlemaine,
  
  
  who is above all, that only she I can observe for true beauty. The King
  
  
  and Queen being set to dinner I went to Mr. Fox's, and there di