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Elizabeth Pepys
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'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'
UnknownCentury: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys
Martin le Roy de Gomberville : Polexandre
'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Madeleine de Scuderi : Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus
'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas : Divine weekes and workes
'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...
'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Unknown
[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...
'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Unknown
Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain
'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Robert Boyle : Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures
'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she doth very well; and was Mr Boyle's discourse upon the Style of the Scripture, which is a very fine piece.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Robert Boyle : Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures
'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain
'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Thomas Fuller : The church-history of Britain
'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace
'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money heretofore upon the people, and how they have played upon the kings also.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace
'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about the little profit of honour this Kingdom ever gained in its greatest of its conquests abroad in France.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Sir Robert Cotton : An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace
'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
John Davies [transl] : The history of Algiers and its slavery
'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : Mustapha
'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Madame de Scud?ri : Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa
'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Madame de Scud?ri : Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa
'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as "The Maiden Queen" or "The Indian Imperour", of his making, that I was troubled at it; and my wife tells me is wholly (which he confesses a little in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustr. Bassa".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
William Habington : The Queene of Arragon
'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Peter Heylyn : Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
L.G. de Cordemoy : A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French
'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all the ways and secrets by which Nature teaches speech in man - which doth please me most infinitely to read.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
William Davenant : The siege of Rhodes
'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and home, my wife to read to me'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Robert Boyle : The origin of formes and qualities
'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Robert Boyle : The origin of formes and qualities
'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Edward Chamberlayne : Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof
'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of England", which promises well and is worth reading; and so after a while to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
William Penn : The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ...
'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I find it so well writ, as I think it too good for him ever to have writ it - and it is a serious sort of book, and not fit for everybody to read.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Middleton : [Middleton's memorandum]
'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hand to read; but Lord, it is a poor silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice in the King's Navy; it is to have the Captain's to endent for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds to my thinking, and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
[unknown] : [unknown]
'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
[unknown] : [unknown]
'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.
'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
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'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.
'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
La Calpren?de : Cassandra
'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and I to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Silas Taylor : The Serenade, or Disappointment
'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so much as I could make any judgement on it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
Robert Wild : Upon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor and the noble company of bachelors dining with him, May 5th, 1669
'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking and singing, and reading a foolish copy of verses up[on] my Lord Mayors entertaining of all the Bachelors, designed in praise to my Lord Mayor.'
