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Overview
In this, the final volume: Pepys continues to grow in reputation in the government, the King's mistress exacts her revenge, Pepys' marriage undergoes further trials, and blindness threatens!Synopsis
That wild and crazy guy of the 17th century - Samuel Pepys - continues his escapades in London and environs. In this, the final volume: Pepys continues to grow in reputation in the government, the King's mistress exacts her revenge, Pepys' marriage undergoes further trials, and blindness threatens! Much too scandalous to be published in its own time, this first person account sheds an entirely different light on Pepys' times.Pepys' long-suffering wife, still suspecting her husband of infidelity after last year's blow-up,is in a cold rage :"But waking by and by out of a slumber, which I usually fall into presently after my coming into the bed, I found she did not prepare to come to bed, but got fresh candles, and more wood for her fire, it being mighty cold, too. At this being troubled, I after a while prayed her to come to bed... At last, about one o'clock, she come to my side of the bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends, made as if she did design to pinch me with them..."Book Details
Published
October 24, 2010
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages
128
ISBN
9781453859575