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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry her, my
Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he
had writ in a book or his, this is one: that he that doth get a
wench with child and marries her afterward it is as if a man
should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head.  I
perceive my Lord is grown a man very indifferent in all matters
of Religion, and so makes nothing of these things.

		-- Pepys' Diary, 7 Oct. 1660

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