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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

I do truly find that I have overwrought my eyes, so that now they are
become weak and apt to be tired, and all excess of light makes them
sore, so that now, to the candlelight I am forced to sit by, adding
the Snow upon the ground all day, my eyes are very bad, and will be
worse if not helped; so my Lord Brouncker doth advise me, as a certain
cure, to use Greene Spectacles, which I will do.  [ ... ] I this
evening did buy me a pair of green spectacles, to see whether they
will help my eyes or no.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 24 Dec. 1666

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