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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my minute
wach in my hand, by which I am now come to see the distances of my
way from Woolwich to Greenwich.  And I do find myself to come within
two minutes constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter
of an hour.

He [Sir W. Hickes] did give us the meanest dinner---of
beef---shoulder and umbles of venison which he takes away from the
keeper of the Forest---and a few pigeons; and all in the meanest
manner that ever I did see---to the basest degree.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 13 Sep. 1665

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