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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

... sent for Jervas my old periwig-maker and he did bring me a
periwig; but it was full of nits; so as I was troubled to see it (it
being his old fault) and did send him to make it clean ...

So I home, and there up to my wife in our chamber; and there received
from my brother the news of my mother's dying on Monday, about 5 or 6
a-clock in the afternoon, and that the last time she spoke of her
children was on Friday last, and her last words were "God bless my
poor Sam!"
		-- Pepys' Diary, 27 Mar. 1667

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