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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

Up---and this day being the day that, by a promise a great while ago
made to my wife, I was to give her 20l to lay out in clothes against
Easter, she did, notwithstanding last night's falling-out, come to
peace with me and I with her, but did boggle mightily at the parting
with my money ...

At noon I to dinner at Trinity house---and thence to Gresham
College, where, first Mr. Hooke read a second very curious Lecture
about the late Comett, among other things, proving very probably
that this is the very same Comett that appeared before in the year
1618, and that in such a time will probably appear again---which is
a very new opinion---but all will be in print.

And this day I did pay my admission money---40s.---to the [Royal]
Society.  

Here was very fine discourses---and experiments; but I do lack
philosophy enough to understand them, and so cannot remember them.
Among others, a very perticular account of the making of the several
sorts of bread in France, which is accounted the best place for
bread in the world.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 1 Mar. 1665

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