Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Parliament, the Hall was a venue for well-off Londoners to shop and exchange political news. There Pepys would visit the bookseller Ann Mitchell, to buy newsbooks and chat about their families and other stallholders. Since in the 1660s Pepys was having affairs with Betty and … on 20 January 1703, Evelyn wished his friend ‘the Old man’s life’ which he had found described in a Latin couplet: ‘books, home, garden, bed, friend, wine, relaxation, passion, sense of humour, piety’. 6 These were words which spoke to …
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