I Know Not How To Abstain From

I Went Home And Took My Wife And Went To My Cosen Tho. Pepys's And Found Them Just Sat Down To Dinner, Which Was Very Good; Only The Venison Pasty Was Palpable Beef, Which Was Not Handsome.

But It Is Pretty To See What Money Will Do.

I See It Is Impossible For The King To Have Things Done As Cheap As Other Men.

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.

Find Myself £43 Worse Than I Was The Last Month ... Chiefly Arisen From My Layings-out In Clothes For Myself And Wife; Viz., For Her, About £12, And For Myself, £55 Or Thereabouts.