From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)
Up exceeding early to go to the Comptroller, thinking to have gone with him to Whitehall. But he not being up and it being a very fine bright Moonshine morning, I went and walked all alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from gracious streete corner to the Stockes and back again---from 6 a-clock till past 7---so long that I was weary: and going to the Controller's, thinking to find him ready, I find him gone. At which I was troubled, and being weary, went home. -- Pepys' Diary, 10 Dec. 1660