Cod´lin Cod·ling n. [Cf. AS. codæppel a quince.] (a) An apple fit to stew or coddle. (b) An immature apple. 'A codling when 't is almost an apple.' Shak. [Twelfth Night, I.v.] http://www.answers.com/topic/codl…
Birkenhead, John, Sir Cabala, or, An impartial account of the non-conformists private designs, actings and wayes from August 24, 1662 to December 25 in the same year. London : [s.n.], 1663 http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/…
The moral of the Mennes-Smith 'drollery' is that the famous curative powers of Epsum Wells's waters have chiefly purgative value, Hard to believe Pepys, bibliophile that he is, is wholly unaware of this and other satyrs of the Comptroller of the Navy in his youth.
A poem by By Sir John Mennes and James Smith (Pt 1)
To a friend upon a journey to Epsam WelL
SIR, though our flight deserves no care Of your enquiry, where we are; Yet for to put you out of doubt, Read but these Lines, you'l smell us out. We having at the Mazard din'd, Where Veal and Mutton open chin'd, Hang on the Shambles ; thence we pace To Putney's Ferry : Coomes old Chase We next pass'd o're, then to the town Which name of King doth much renowne ; Where having supp'd we went to bed, Our selves and Cattell wearied.
Musarum Delicice: OR, THE MUSES RECREATION. Conteining severall select Pieces of Poetique Wit. The Second Edition, By By Sr. J[ohn] M[ennes] and Ja:[mes] S[mith]. LONDON, Printed by J.G.for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Signe of the Anchor in the New Exchange, 1656. http://www.immortalia.com/html/bo…
Interesting to ponder how Samuel Pepys is comforted by what Mr. Joseph Hill, of Cambridge, has to say about the likely fate of Nonconformists like himself - wherefore he'd been deprived of his Fellowship at Magdalene (where Pepys had been ubder his tutelage) - and elso Will Hewer, and the likes of others he's admired -- Sir Harry Vane and Dr. William Bates....
Methinks our former Puritan is a man who admires moral rectitude above religious adherence.
"In discourse of the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me...."
And his wife's family thought she had married 'beneath' her; like his fellow, Pepys, he has a way of making and working his connections to good effect.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted this House with a Message from the King: "That His Majesty did hope both Houses should have had a Recess before this Time; but His Majesty is resolved to come on Monday Morning next, to pass such Bills as are ready, and then to make a Recess."
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 22 July 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 567-68. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 22 July 2006.
Fast to be observed. ORDERED, That the Lords do meet here To-morrow Morning, and go together to keep the Day of Humiliation in the Abbey Church of Westm.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 20 July 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 565-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 21 July 2006.
agreeing that *Faber Fortunae* 1) is the short title of what is included (Accedunt) in the volume; 2) refers to the image of the goddess on her wheel, engraved on the frontispiece of the 1662 12º volume; I yet affirm it to be 3) also a reference to what seems to be the main point of the "De Fortuna" (which the incipit leads up to), sc. "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ" (Every man is the architect [maker] of his own fortune), which agrees with and spells out in more practical details Pepys's "chracteristic" bon mot from Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’), to focus on the former.
This discussion will prove valuable when Pepys reads this volume again. (Stay tuned.)
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About Sunday 26 July 1663
TerryF • Link
I "halloed Mr. Creede and made him hunt me from place to place;" - so L&M
About Ewell, Surrey
TerryF • Link
Ewell is N of Epsum on the right-hand side of this map http://www.motco.com/map/81001/Se…
About Codlin
TerryF • Link
Cod´lin
Cod·ling n.
[Cf. AS. codæppel a quince.]
(a) An apple fit to stew or coddle. (b) An immature apple. 'A codling when 't is almost an apple.' Shak. [Twelfth Night, I.v.] http://www.answers.com/topic/codl…
About The Politician Cheated (Alexander Green)
TerryF • Link
The politician cheated, a new comedy
by Alexander Greene
London : Printed for Robert Crofts, 1663.
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/…
Listed here: The Restoration Comedy Project
http://alojamientos.us.es/restora…
About Birkenhead's 'Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design...'
TerryF • Link
Birkenhead, John, Sir
Cabala, or, An impartial account of the non-conformists private designs, actings and wayes from August 24, 1662 to December 25 in the same year.
London : [s.n.], 1663
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/…
About Ashtead, Surrey
TerryF • Link
Ashted SW of Epsom (map courtesy of Cumgranissalis)
http://www.motco.com/map/81001/Se…
About Saturday 25 July 1663
TerryF • Link
The moral of the Mennes-Smith 'drollery' is that the famous curative powers of Epsum Wells's waters have chiefly purgative value, Hard to believe Pepys, bibliophile that he is, is wholly unaware of this and other satyrs of the Comptroller of the Navy in his youth.
About Saturday 25 July 1663
TerryF • Link
A poem by By Sir John Mennes and James Smith (Pt 1)
To a friend upon a journey to Epsam WelL
SIR, though our flight deserves no care
Of your enquiry, where we are;
Yet for to put you out of doubt,
Read but these Lines, you'l smell us out.
We having at the Mazard din'd,
Where Veal and Mutton open chin'd,
Hang on the Shambles ; thence we pace
To Putney's Ferry : Coomes old Chase
We next pass'd o're, then to the town
Which name of King doth much renowne ;
Where having supp'd we went to bed,
Our selves and Cattell wearied.
Musarum Delicice: OR, THE MUSES RECREATION.
Conteining severall select Pieces of Poetique Wit.
The Second Edition,
By By Sr. J[ohn] M[ennes] and Ja:[mes] S[mith].
LONDON, Printed by J.G.for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Signe of the Anchor in the New Exchange, 1656.
http://www.immortalia.com/html/bo…
About St Giles (Ashtead, Surrey)
TerryF • Link
Ashted SW of Epsom (map courtesy of Cumgranissalis)
http://www.motco.com/map/81001/Se…
About Nonsuch House, Surrey
TerryF • Link
Cumgranissalis on Fri 2 Sep 2005, 4:27 am | Link
Nonsuch be here nearby [NE of] Epsom
http://www.motco.com/map/81001/Se…
About Saturday 25 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"inveighing against Mr. Gauden's victuals" - so L&M
"which I find comes [a] little short of what I took it to be" - L&M
"so up and down in the closes, which I know so well"
close
n. 5. Scottish & British regional. A narrow lane or alley.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 1978
About Friday 24 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"I was not unwilling to hear him talk,..."
Interesting to ponder how Samuel Pepys is comforted by what Mr. Joseph Hill, of Cambridge, has to say about the likely fate of Nonconformists like himself - wherefore he'd been deprived of his Fellowship at Magdalene (where Pepys had been ubder his tutelage) - and elso Will Hewer, and the likes of others he's admired -- Sir Harry Vane and Dr. William Bates....
Methinks our former Puritan is a man
who admires moral rectitude above religious adherence.
About Friday 24 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"neighbourhood"
A very appealing usage; but might we not today perhaps say "neighborliness"? OED, anyone?
jeannine, can't you tell from her slack and sloppy dress, &c., a "slut" in this sense at first sight?
About Thursday 23 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"mustered the yard..., and discharged several...that were absent"
23 August 1662 Pepys mustered the same Woolwich yard and the next day 30 of the absent were discharged.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Wednesday 22 July 1663
TerryF • Link
L&M to the rrrrrescue again!
ayery: airy, sprightly, stylish.
(Select Glossary)
"But the King comes back again against Monday"
About Wednesday 22 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"In discourse of the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me...."
And his wife's family thought she had married 'beneath' her; like his fellow, Pepys, he has a way of making and working his connections to good effect.
About Wednesday 22 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"breaking up of the Parliament"
Message from the King, about a Recess.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted this House with a Message from the King: "That His Majesty did hope both Houses should have had a Recess before this Time; but His Majesty is resolved to come on Monday Morning next, to pass such Bills as are ready, and then to make a Recess."
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 22 July 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 567-68. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 22 July 2006.
About Tuesday 21 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Yesterday in Lords
Fast to be observed.
ORDERED, That the Lords do meet here To-morrow Morning, and go together to keep the Day of Humiliation in the Abbey Church of Westm.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 20 July 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 565-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 21 July 2006.
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Joining A. Hamilton in thanks, Michael Robinson,
agreeing that *Faber Fortunae* 1) is the short title of what is included (Accedunt) in the volume; 2) refers to the image of the goddess on her wheel, engraved on the frontispiece of the 1662 12º volume; I yet affirm it to be 3) also a reference to what seems to be the main point of the "De Fortuna" (which the incipit leads up to), sc. "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ" (Every man is the architect [maker] of his own fortune), which agrees with and spells out in more practical details Pepys's "chracteristic" bon mot from Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’), to focus on the former.
This discussion will prove valuable when Pepys reads this volume again. (Stay tuned.)
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
“…the oftener I read the more I admire.”
The end of Bacon's (Essay "On Riches" “..defer not charities till death &c.") not a model for Pepys to follow, let's hope!
Thanks, JWB, for the lesson Bacon left his heirs - that be all of us and ours.