Pepys’ Diary.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 193, 15 August 1931, Page 16

Pepys’ Diary.

JUNE 13th, 1663. After dinner by water to the Royall Theatre. Saw my Lady Castlemaine, who I fear is not so handsome as I have taken her for, and now she begins to decay something. This is my wife’s opinion also, for which I am sorry. Thence by coach, with a mad coachman that drove like mad, and down byeways through Bucklersbury home, everybody through the streets cursing him, being ready to run over them. N JUNE 15th, 1663. To the Trinitj 7 House where among others I found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm. Wheeler. Anon we sat down to dinner, which was very great, as they always have. Great variety of talk. Sometimes they talked of handsome women, and Sir J. Minnes saying that there was no beauty like what he sees in the country-markets (and specially at Bury, in which I will agree with him that there is a prettiest women I ever saw), my Lord replied thus: “Sir John, what do you think of your neighbour’s wife?” looking upon me. “Do you not think that he hath a great beauty to his wife? Upon my word he hath.” Which I was not a little proud of. JUNE loth, 1663.

My head akeing with the healths I was forced to drink to-day I sent for the barber, and he having done, I up to my wife’s closett and there played on my viallin a good while, and without supper anon to bed, sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart, though of late she has given me some troubled thoughts.