Volume 8

The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheatley.

  • Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheatley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    a good advance: and so, being called by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend of hers, being with us. Thence to “The World’s End,” a drinking- house by the Park; and there merry, and so home late. And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand ; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear : and, therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must therefore be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or, if there be any thing, which cannot be much, now my amours to Deb. are past, and my eyes hindering me in almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! S. P. May 31, 1669. END OF TIIE DIARY.