Sok szó esik az emberek között arról, hogy némely fanatikusok szerint elközelgett a világ vége, és a jövő kedden lesz a napja. Bármikor lesz is, kész… - Samuel Pepys

The plague, it seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money than ever heretofore.