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, February 1666/67
  
  
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  February 1st. Up, and to the office, where I was all the morning doing
  business, at noon home to dinner, and after dinner down by water, though it
  was a thick misty and rainy day, and walked to Deptford from Redriffe, and
  there to Bagwell's by appointment, where the 'mulier etoit within expecting me
  venir . . . . By and by 'su marido' come in, and there without any notice
  taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting him the new ship
  building by Mr. Deane, which I shall do for him. Thence by and by after a
  little talk I to the yard, and spoke with some 