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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

At noon home to dinner, and presently with my wife out to Hales's,
where I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture.  I
paid him 14l for it, and 25s. for the frame, and I think it not a
whit too dear for so good a picture.  He promises it shall be as
good as my wife's, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do
almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture
for him to work by.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 17 Mar. 1666

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