‘backward, v. < backward adj. Compare to forward. Obs. exc. dial. Also dial. . . backwarding and forwarding, ‘to-ing and fro-ing’. . . 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker x. 167 And now, after all this backwarding and forwarding, and that hotel clerk, and that bug Bellairs, it'll be a change..to see the schooner.’
‘backwards, adv. and adj. < backward v. with adverbial genitive -s . . 1715 London Gaz. No. 5323/1 To ply forwards and backwards..on the Coasts of Calabria . . ‘
‘artist, n. < . . Middle French . . . . 2. A person skilled or proficient at a particular task or occupation; an expert. Obs. . . 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. v. sig. H3 v, As some curious Artist, takes in sunder A Clocke, or Watch, when it is out of frame To bring't in better order. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 125, I wil give you more directions concerning fishing; for I would fain make you an Artist. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 224 The Mate was an excellent Sea Artist, and an experienc'd Sailor . . ‘
‘brawn, n. < Old French braon . . The specific sense ‘boar's flesh’ is exclusively of English development, and characteristic of English habits. . . 3. spec. The flesh of the boar . . In recent use . . collared, boiled, and pickled or potted. . . 1377 Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 62 Wombe-cloutes and wylde braune & egges yfryed with grece. . . 1641 Milton Animadversions 17 Is a man therefore bound..at noon to Brawn, or Beefe..? a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 4 Private Deliberations over Brawn and Quest-Ale.’
'slop, n.1 <Middle Dutch slop . . . . 5. a. pl. Ready-made clothing and other furnishings supplied to seamen from the ship's stores; hence, ready-made, cheap, or inferior garments generally. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 16 Mar. (1971) IV. 74 Advising upon the business of Slopps, wherein the seaman is so much abused by the pursers. . . 1799 Ld. Nelson 16 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 267 Slops are not to be purchased here but at an enormous price . . '
’pew, n.1 < Old French puie . . 1.a. In a church: a place where seating, often enclosed, is reserved for the use of a particular (often distinguished) worshipper or group of worshippers; (more generally) any enclosure or compartment in which worshippers may be seated. Also in extended use. . . 1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1971) V. 67 The Bishop of London, who sat there in a pew made a-purpose for him by the pulpitt . . ‘
‘snooty, adj. < snoot n. Supercilious, haughty, conceited; affecting superiority, snobbish; ‘highbrow’, ‘stuck-up’. Occas., irritable, short-tempered. 1919 A. Huxley Let. 12 Aug. (1969) 180 A very snooty cousin and a sporty one. . .1980 R. Barnard Death in Cold Climate vi. 60 You know how the English can say ‘Really?’—all cold and snooty.’
‘snoot, n. < dial. var. snout n.1 1. = snout n.1 2. dial. and slang. . . 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror v. 101 He seethed with generous indignation and even went so far as to state his intention..of busting the fellow one on the snoot . . ‘
‘buffle, n. < French buffle . . . . 2. A fool; = bufflehead 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 22 He said to the three buffles who stood with their hats in their hands, Tell me, you Waggs, etc. . . ‘
‘charge, n.1 < French charge . . 15. b. spec. An official instruction or admonition given by a judge to a jury, by a bishop . . to his clergy . . 1690 Bp. of Worc.'s Charge 11 Sept. 1 The Charge was given by the Bishop himself.’
‘hard place - P8. colloq. (orig. U.S.) between a rock and a hard place: faced with two equally difficult alternatives; in difficulty. In quot. 1921: bankrupt. 1921 Dial. Notes 5 113 To be between a rock and a hard place,..to be bankrupt. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California.’
‘precept - . . 4. spec. a. A written order, issued by a monarch, court, judge, etc., that requires the carrying out of a legal process, as . . the arrest of a suspected offender . . a writ, a warrant. Now rare. . . 1709 Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1890) XV. 566 Ordered, that a precept be issued to all or either of the said officers,..to bring their said prisoner..forthwith before the Governor and Council.’
GB: March 14 Old Style = March 25 New Style. Nowadays this is well into Spring in London; Pepys lived in the Little Ice Age, so winters were longer and colder than now but the weather was just as variable from day to day. So when a mild day came they walked out to enjoy it, knowing that the following day might be cold and miserable again.
I don’t know what is known about the garden. I guess it was designed for recreational walking: laid out with gravel walks round flower beds bordered by box hedges, and they walked round and round, admiring no doubt the budding bulbs and looking out for any other signs of spring:
‘OH, to be in England now that April ’s there And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now! . . ‘
‘rant, n. < Dutch randen . . . . 1.†b. A violent scolding. Obs. rare. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 14 Mar. (1971) IV. 73 A great rant I did give to Mr. Davis..and others about their hard usage of Michell.’
‘ . . Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.’
‘stout, adj. and adv. < Old French estout . . . . 4. a. Of persons: Firm in resolve, unyielding, determined. Obs. . . . . 1597 Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 338 Here come my executioners. How now my hardy stout resolued mates, Are you now going to dispatch this deede. . . 1631 J. Done Polydoron 44 [An] old English proverbe, viz. I stout and thou stout, who shall carry the dirt out? . . 1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 6 Dec. (1948) II. 431 We reckon we have a majority of ten on our side in the house of lords; yet I observed Mrs. Masham a little uneasy; she assures me the queen is stout . . ‘
‘mad, adj. < Old English gemǣd . . mad emerged, after the decline of wroth and other synonyms which had been common in Middle English, as the ordinary term for ‘feeling anger’ in many dialects in Great Britain (and later in North America), alongside standard English angry: use in this sense is frequently proscribed in usage guides from the late 18th cent. onwards.
4. a. Of a person: insane, crazy; mentally unbalanced or deranged; subject to delusions or hallucinations; (in later use esp.) psychotic. . . 1665 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1972) VI. 21 He told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been and is—and once at Antwerp, was really mad.
6. a. Of a person: beside oneself with anger; moved to uncontrollable rage; furious. b. Angry, irate, cross. Also, in weakened sense: annoyed, exasperated . . Now colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.) and Brit. regional. . . 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvi. 11 And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 155 Whereat the merchant was so mad, and so transported with passion, that he knew not what to say . .
. . Phrases P1. like mad: (literally) in the manner of one who is mad; (hence) furiously, with excessive violence or enthusiasm; now often (colloq.) in weakened sense, as an intensifier: greatly, to a high degree. Also †like any mad, †for mad. . . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1971) IV. 182 Thence by coach with a mad coachman that drove like mad.
. . Special uses S1. Parasynthetic. . . mad-humoured adj. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1972) VI. 321 Knipp, who is..the most excellent mad-humourd thing; and sings the noblest that ever I heard.’
‘dote < . . Anglo-Norman *doter . . . . 2. Now esp. To be weak-minded from old age; to have the intellect impaired by reason of age (Formerly only contextual.) . . ?1606 M. Drayton Eglog vi, in Poemes sig. E7v, Thou dotst in thy declining age. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 301 The parson..is now old and doates . . ‘
‘ . . Royalist doubts about Montagu's loyalty to the Rump were shared by that body itself, which removed him from the admiralty commission on 31 May, sent the known republican John Lawson to command a fleet off Flanders as a counterweight to Montagu's, and dispatched . . Algernon Sidney, ostensibly to assist Montagu with the negotiations but in reality at least partly to monitor his activities.
The new commissioners . . agreed to form a joint Anglo-Dutch fleet to enforce their proposed treaty. Montagu ( . . argued) that the rapidly diminishing level of provisions in the fleet made its immediate return to England essential. Sidney suspected that Montagu was in touch with the royalists—he had seen Whetstone ashore in Copenhagen—and that the real reason for taking the fleet home would be to assist that cause.
The fleet sailed on 24 August, arriving in Hollesley Bay on 6 September. The fact that Montagu had persistently rejected the option of obtaining provisions ashore, and that a nationwide royalist uprising took place during August . . led to immediate suspicions that he had covertly planned to use the fleet for the royalist . . (he) argued his case before the Rump and no hard evidence could be found against him. Nevertheless, he ceased to command at sea and retired to Hinchingbrooke. Montagu's agents in London, notably Samuel Pepys . . , kept him informed of the bewildering pace of political change over the winter of 1659–60 . . ‘
‘frolic, n. < Flemish frolicken . . . . 1. c. = whim n.1 1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 5 Apr. (1948) I. 235 If the frolick should take you of going to the Bath, I here send you a note on Parvisol.’
‘whim, n.1 < whim-wham n. . . . . a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iii. i. 28 Your studied Whim-whams; and your fine set Faces. . . . . 2. A fantastic notion, odd fancy;
. . 3. a. A capricious notion or fancy; a fantastic or freakish idea; an odd fancy. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 24 Walking pretty late in the Park..A whim took me to sing Chivy-Chase . . ‘
and
‘reprehend, v. < Latin reprehendere . . 1. a. trans. To rebuke, reprimand, or reprove (a person). . . 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 123 Yet was their Assembly judged Unlawfull, and the Magistrate reprehended them for it. . . 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxvi. 156, I severely reprehend him on this occasion . . ‘ ……... Bill is correct - remember the air was full of smuts from countless coal fires: going out wearing already soiled gloves would be a major faux pas for a young Lady.
‘supple, adj. < Anglo-Norman sople . . . . II. fig. and non-physical senses. 6. Yielding readily to persuasion or influence; obedient, compliant. With to. a1616 Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 55 When we haue stufft These Pipes..With Wine and Feeding, we haue suppler Soules Then in our Priest-like Fasts. . . 1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Jan. (1976) IX. 412 It being about the manner of paying a little money to Chatham-yard; wherein I find the Treasurers mighty supple. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 371 Cromwell did not find the Parliament so supple to observe his Orders, as he expected they would have been . . ‘
I went yesterday and recommend it to anyone who can go and hasn’t been.
It is aimed squarely at the general public and tourists who know next to nothing about this highly eventful period so there is not much for a regular reader of the diary to learn but there is a good range of pictures and artefacts to see which flesh out the entries we read day by day.
Not the diary, which cannot leave Magdalene College library under the terms of his will but other shorthand records made by SP and the complete transcript made in 1811.
There is a fine modern portrait of Elizabeth Pepys based on a print of the now lost contemporary picture that SP was so pleased with - a beautiful young woman!
The credit panels at the end include a twitter feed of daily quotes running since 2008 by PG: @samuelpepys https://twitter.com/samuelpepys but not http://www.pepysdiary.com/, which is a pity as many visitors will leave unaware of this site and of the singular pleasure of receiving a daily email from Our Sam.
‘betimes, adv. < betime v. . . 2. spec. At an early hour, early in the morning. . . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Sept. (1971) IV. 293 Up pretty betimes and after a little at my Viall, to my office . . ‘
‘beˈtime, v. . . a. intr. To betide.’
‘betide, v. < M English bitiden . . to happen . . 1. a. intr. To happen, befall . . . . a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. ii. 199 The wounded man..about to aske what was betided. . .1802 in Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 275 Betide, betide, whate'er betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside.
. . c. esp. in the expression of a wish. Now almost exclusively in ‘Woe betide!’ . . 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iv, in Wks. (1874) IV. 70 A happy Morning now betide you Lady. . . ‘
‘alphabet, n. < . . Hellenistic Greek ἀλϕάβητος < ancient Greek ἄλϕα alpha n. + βῆτα beta n., the first two Greek letters taken as a name for the whole . . 3. An index or list in alphabetical order. . . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 25 Dec. (1972) VII. 421 Reducing the names of all my books to an Alphabet . . ‘
Comments
Second Reading
About Saturday 28 March 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘backward, v. < backward adj. Compare to forward. Obs. exc. dial. Also dial.
. . backwarding and forwarding, ‘to-ing and fro-ing’.
. . 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker x. 167 And now, after all this backwarding and forwarding, and that hotel clerk, and that bug Bellairs, it'll be a change..to see the schooner.’
‘backwards, adv. and adj. < backward v. with adverbial genitive -s
. . 1715 London Gaz. No. 5323/1 To ply forwards and backwards..on the Coasts of Calabria . . ‘
About Saturday 28 March 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
Oxford vs. Cambridge Women's Boat Race 2016 from 19:00:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z…
About Tuesday 24 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘artist, n. < . . Middle French . .
. . 2. A person skilled or proficient at a particular task or occupation; an expert. Obs.
. . 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. v. sig. H3 v, As some curious Artist, takes in sunder A Clocke, or Watch, when it is out of frame To bring't in better order.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 125, I wil give you more directions concerning fishing; for I would fain make you an Artist.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 224 The Mate was an excellent Sea Artist, and an experienc'd Sailor . . ‘
About Thursday 19 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘brawn, n. < Old French braon . . The specific sense ‘boar's flesh’ is exclusively of English development, and characteristic of English habits.
. . 3. spec. The flesh of the boar . . In recent use . . collared, boiled, and pickled or potted. . .
1377 Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 62 Wombe-cloutes and wylde braune & egges yfryed with grece.
. . 1641 Milton Animadversions 17 Is a man therefore bound..at noon to Brawn, or Beefe..?
a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 4 Private Deliberations over Brawn and Quest-Ale.’
About Monday 16 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
'slop, n.1 <Middle Dutch slop . . . . 5. a. pl. Ready-made clothing and other furnishings supplied to seamen from the ship's stores; hence, ready-made, cheap, or inferior garments generally.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 16 Mar. (1971) IV. 74 Advising upon the business of Slopps, wherein the seaman is so much abused by the pursers.
. . 1799 Ld. Nelson 16 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 267 Slops are not to be purchased here but at an enormous price . . '
About Sunday 15 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
’pew, n.1 < Old French puie . . 1.a. In a church: a place where seating, often enclosed, is reserved for the use of a particular (often distinguished) worshipper or group of worshippers; (more generally) any enclosure or compartment in which worshippers may be seated. Also in extended use.
. . 1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1971) V. 67 The Bishop of London, who sat there in a pew made a-purpose for him by the pulpitt . . ‘
‘snooty, adj. < snoot n. Supercilious, haughty, conceited; affecting superiority, snobbish; ‘highbrow’, ‘stuck-up’. Occas., irritable, short-tempered.
1919 A. Huxley Let. 12 Aug. (1969) 180 A very snooty cousin and a sporty one.
. .1980 R. Barnard Death in Cold Climate vi. 60 You know how the English can say ‘Really?’—all cold and snooty.’
‘snoot, n. < dial. var. snout n.1 1. = snout n.1 2. dial. and slang.
. . 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror v. 101 He seethed with generous indignation and even went so far as to state his intention..of busting the fellow one on the snoot . . ‘
About Tuesday 17 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘buffle, n. < French buffle . .
. . 2. A fool; = bufflehead
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 22 He said to the three buffles who stood with their hats in their hands, Tell me, you Waggs, etc. . . ‘
‘charge, n.1 < French charge . . 15. b. spec. An official instruction or admonition given by a judge to a jury, by a bishop . . to his clergy . .
1690 Bp. of Worc.'s Charge 11 Sept. 1 The Charge was given by the Bishop himself.’
‘hard place - P8. colloq. (orig. U.S.) between a rock and a hard place: faced with two equally difficult alternatives; in difficulty. In quot. 1921: bankrupt.
1921 Dial. Notes 5 113 To be between a rock and a hard place,..to be bankrupt. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California.’
‘precept - . . 4. spec. a. A written order, issued by a monarch, court, judge, etc., that requires the carrying out of a legal process, as . . the arrest of a suspected offender . . a writ, a warrant. Now rare.
. . 1709 Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1890) XV. 566 Ordered, that a precept be issued to all or either of the said officers,..to bring their said prisoner..forthwith before the Governor and Council.’
About Saturday 14 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
GB: March 14 Old Style = March 25 New Style. Nowadays this is well into Spring in London; Pepys lived in the Little Ice Age, so winters were longer and colder than now but the weather was just as variable from day to day. So when a mild day came they walked out to enjoy it, knowing that the following day might be cold and miserable again.
I don’t know what is known about the garden. I guess it was designed for recreational walking: laid out with gravel walks round flower beds bordered by box hedges, and they walked round and round, admiring no doubt the budding bulbs and looking out for any other signs of spring:
‘OH, to be in England now that April ’s there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now! . . ‘
Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning
http://www.bartleby.com/246/647.h…
About Saturday 14 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘rant, n. < Dutch randen . .
. . 1.†b. A violent scolding. Obs. rare.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 14 Mar. (1971) IV. 73 A great rant I did give to Mr. Davis..and others about their hard usage of Michell.’
About Friday 13 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
It's also what Keats meant here:
‘ . . Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.’
John Keats - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
http://www.keats-shelley-house.or…
About Friday 13 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘stout, adj. and adv. < Old French estout . .
. . 4. a. Of persons: Firm in resolve, unyielding, determined. Obs. . .
. . 1597 Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 338 Here come my executioners. How now my hardy stout resolued mates, Are you now going to dispatch this deede.
. . 1631 J. Done Polydoron 44 [An] old English proverbe, viz. I stout and thou stout, who shall carry the dirt out?
. . 1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 6 Dec. (1948) II. 431 We reckon we have a majority of ten on our side in the house of lords; yet I observed Mrs. Masham a little uneasy; she assures me the queen is stout . . ‘
This is the sense here, I think.
About Thursday 12 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
'1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 532 Laryngitis, or inflammation of the larynx.' (OED)
About Wednesday 11 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘mad, adj. < Old English gemǣd . . mad emerged, after the decline of wroth and other synonyms which had been common in Middle English, as the ordinary term for ‘feeling anger’ in many dialects in Great Britain (and later in North America), alongside standard English angry: use in this sense is frequently proscribed in usage guides from the late 18th cent. onwards.
4. a. Of a person: insane, crazy; mentally unbalanced or deranged; subject to delusions or hallucinations; (in later use esp.) psychotic.
. . 1665 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1972) VI. 21 He told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been and is—and once at Antwerp, was really mad.
6. a. Of a person: beside oneself with anger; moved to uncontrollable rage; furious.
b. Angry, irate, cross. Also, in weakened sense: annoyed, exasperated . . Now colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.) and Brit. regional.
. . 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvi. 11 And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 155 Whereat the merchant was so mad, and so transported with passion, that he knew not what to say . .
. . Phrases P1. like mad: (literally) in the manner of one who is mad; (hence) furiously, with excessive violence or enthusiasm; now often (colloq.) in weakened sense, as an intensifier: greatly, to a high degree. Also †like any mad, †for mad.
. . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1971) IV. 182 Thence by coach with a mad coachman that drove like mad.
. . Special uses S1. Parasynthetic.
. . mad-humoured adj.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1972) VI. 321 Knipp, who is..the most excellent mad-humourd thing; and sings the noblest that ever I heard.’
Sense 6 here, I think.
About Tuesday 10 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘dote < . . Anglo-Norman *doter . .
. . 2. Now esp. To be weak-minded from old age; to have the intellect impaired by reason of age (Formerly only contextual.)
. . ?1606 M. Drayton Eglog vi, in Poemes sig. E7v, Thou dotst in thy declining age.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 301 The parson..is now old and doates . . ‘
About Sunday 8 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
Bill account is roughly correct:
‘ . . Royalist doubts about Montagu's loyalty to the Rump were shared by that body itself, which removed him from the admiralty commission on 31 May, sent the known republican John Lawson to command a fleet off Flanders as a counterweight to Montagu's, and dispatched . . Algernon Sidney, ostensibly to assist Montagu with the negotiations but in reality at least partly to monitor his activities.
The new commissioners . . agreed to form a joint Anglo-Dutch fleet to enforce their proposed treaty. Montagu ( . . argued) that the rapidly diminishing level of provisions in the fleet made its immediate return to England essential. Sidney suspected that Montagu was in touch with the royalists—he had seen Whetstone ashore in Copenhagen—and that the real reason for taking the fleet home would be to assist that cause.
The fleet sailed on 24 August, arriving in Hollesley Bay on 6 September. The fact that Montagu had persistently rejected the option of obtaining provisions ashore, and that a nationwide royalist uprising took place during August . . led to immediate suspicions that he had covertly planned to use the fleet for the royalist . . (he) argued his case before the Rump and no hard evidence could be found against him. Nevertheless, he ceased to command at sea and retired to Hinchingbrooke. Montagu's agents in London, notably Samuel Pepys . . , kept him informed of the bewildering pace of political change over the winter of 1659–60 . . ‘
(DNB)
About Saturday 7 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘frolic, n. < Flemish frolicken . .
. . 1. c. = whim n.1
1711 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 5 Apr. (1948) I. 235 If the frolick should take you of going to the Bath, I here send you a note on Parvisol.’
‘whim, n.1 < whim-wham n. . .
. . a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iii. i. 28 Your studied Whim-whams; and your fine set Faces. . .
. . 2. A fantastic notion, odd fancy;
. . 3. a. A capricious notion or fancy; a fantastic or freakish idea; an odd fancy.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 24 Walking pretty late in the Park..A whim took me to sing Chivy-Chase . . ‘
and
‘reprehend, v. < Latin reprehendere . .
1. a. trans. To rebuke, reprimand, or reprove (a person).
. . 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 123 Yet was their Assembly judged Unlawfull, and the Magistrate reprehended them for it.
. . 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxvi. 156, I severely reprehend him on this occasion . . ‘
……...
Bill is correct - remember the air was full of smuts from countless coal fires: going out wearing already soiled gloves would be a major faux pas for a young Lady.
About Friday 6 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘supple, adj. < Anglo-Norman sople . .
. . II. fig. and non-physical senses.
6. Yielding readily to persuasion or influence; obedient, compliant. With to.
a1616 Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 55 When we haue stufft These Pipes..With Wine and Feeding, we haue suppler Soules Then in our Priest-like Fasts.
. . 1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Jan. (1976) IX. 412 It being about the manner of paying a little money to Chatham-yard; wherein I find the Treasurers mighty supple.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 371 Cromwell did not find the Parliament so supple to observe his Orders, as he expected they would have been . . ‘
About New exhibition: Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Chris Squire UK • Link
I went yesterday and recommend it to anyone who can go and hasn’t been.
It is aimed squarely at the general public and tourists who know next to nothing about this highly eventful period so there is not much for a regular reader of the diary to learn but there is a good range of pictures and artefacts to see which flesh out the entries we read day by day.
Not the diary, which cannot leave Magdalene College library under the terms of his will but other shorthand records made by SP and the complete transcript made in 1811.
There is a fine modern portrait of Elizabeth Pepys based on a print of the now lost contemporary picture that SP was so pleased with - a beautiful young woman!
The credit panels at the end include a twitter feed of daily quotes running since 2008 by PG: @samuelpepys https://twitter.com/samuelpepys but not http://www.pepysdiary.com/, which is a pity as many visitors will leave unaware of this site and of the singular pleasure of receiving a daily email from Our Sam.
About Thursday 5 March 1662/63
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘betimes, adv. < betime v. . .
2. spec. At an early hour, early in the morning.
. . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Sept. (1971) IV. 293 Up pretty betimes and after a little at my Viall, to my office . . ‘
‘beˈtime, v.
. . a. intr. To betide.’
‘betide, v. < M English bitiden . . to happen . .
1. a. intr. To happen, befall . .
. . a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. ii. 199 The wounded man..about to aske what was betided.
. .1802 in Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 275 Betide, betide, whate'er betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside.
. . c. esp. in the expression of a wish. Now almost exclusively in ‘Woe betide!’
. . 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iv, in Wks. (1874) IV. 70 A happy Morning now betide you Lady. . . ‘
About Wednesday 4 March 1662/63
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OED has:
‘alphabet, n. < . . Hellenistic Greek ἀλϕάβητος < ancient Greek ἄλϕα alpha n. + βῆτα beta n., the first two Greek letters taken as a name for the whole
. . 3. An index or list in alphabetical order.
. . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 25 Dec. (1972) VII. 421 Reducing the names of all my books to an Alphabet . . ‘