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Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife how she used
to make coal fires and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me,
poor wretch, in our little room at my Lord Sandwiches; for which I
ought for ever to love and admire her, and do, and persuade myself she
would do the same thing again if God should reduce us to it.

... and at my goldsmith's did observe the King's new Medall, where in
little there is Mrs. Stewards face, as well done as ever I saw
anything in my whole life I think---and a pretty thing it is that he
should choose her face to represent Britannia by.

Pepys' Diary, 25 Feb. 1667

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