'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer [her] to write what she writes to him and of him. Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read; and it being a fair print, to ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book