The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Up by four o’clock, and so to my office; but before I went out, calling, as I have of late done, for my boy’s copybook, I found that he had not done his task; so I beat him,...

Up betimes and to my office, reading over all our letters of the office that we have wrote since I came into the Navy, whereby to bring the whole series of matters into my memory, and to enter in my manuscript some of them that are needful and of great influence. By and by wi...

(Lord’s day). Up betimes, and fell to reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will to the reading of a chapter in Latin, and I am resolved to go through it.

After being trimmed, I by water to

Up and to my office, where all the morning, and dined at home, Mr. Deane, of

Lay till 6 o’clock, and then up and to my office, where all the morning, and at noon to the Exchange, and coming home met