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, March 1663/64
  
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  March 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at
  
  
  noon to the 'Change, and after much business and meeting my uncle Wight,
  
  
  who told me how Mr. Maes had like to have been trapanned yesterday, but
  
  
  was forced to run for it; so with Creed and Mr. Hunt home to dinner, and
  
  
  after a good and pleasant dinner, Mr. Hunt parted, and I took Mr. Creed
  
  
  and my wife and down to Deptford, it being most pleasant weather, and
  
  
  there till night discoursing with the officers there about several
  
  
  things, and so walked home by moonshine, it being mighty pleasant, and so
  
  
  home, and I to my office, where late about getting mys