From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)
... and so to home where I fell to read _The fruitless precaution_ (a book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it and do find it the best-writ tale that ever I read in my life. After that done, to sleep, which I did not very well do because that my wife, having a stopping in her nose, she snored much, which I never did hear her do before. -- Pepys' Diary, 15 Oct. 1660