Samuel Pepys Quotes

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins.

Mrs. Turner tells me that Mr. Will Pen (sic), who is lately come over from Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing; that he cares for no company, nor comes into any – which is a pleasant thing, after his being abroad so long – and his father such a hypocritical rogue, […]