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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

... I close to my papers to set all in order, and to perform my vow
to finish my Journall and other things before I kiss any woman more,
or drink any wine, which I must be forced to do tomorrow if I go to
Greenwich, as I am invited by Mr. Boreman to hear Mrs. Knipp sing.

... also upon writing a letter to my father about Pall, whom it is
time now, I find, to think of disposing of, while God Almighty hath
given me something to give with her; and in my letter to my father I
do offer to give her 450l, to make her own 50l, givven her by my
uncle, up 500l.  I do also therein propose Mr. Harman the upholster
for a husband for her, to whom I have a great love, and did
heretofore love his former wife, and a civil man he is, and careful
in his way.  Besides, I like his trade and place he lives in, being
Cornehill.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 14 Jan. 1666

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