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 1661  
    
  
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1661
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  April 1st, 1661. This day my waiting at the Privy Seal comes in again.Up early
  
  
  among my workmen. So to the once, and went home to dinner with
  
  
  Sir W. Batten, and after that to the Goat tavern by Charing Cross to meet
  
  
  Dr. Castle, where he and I drank a pint of wine and talked about Privy
  
  
  Seal business. Then to the Privy Seal Office and there found Mr. Moore,
  
  
  but no business yet. Then to Whitefryars, and there saw part of "Rule a
  
  
  wife and have a wife," which I never saw before, but do not like it. So
  
  
  to my father, and there finding a discontent between my father and mother
  
  
  about the maid (which my father likes an