and in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to kno… - Samuel Pepys

Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.

Egész nap orvosságot szedtem, és Isten ne vegye bűnömül, holmi francia regények olvasásával mulattam magam.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.