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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][French Romances]Print: Book
1600-1699'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today' [She = Nell Gwyn]Samuel Pepys Richard RhodesFlora's VagariesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but m...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 at night; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitaePrint: Book
1600-1699'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'Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ...Print: Book



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