Content tagged goldsmith

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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, … pepys/260

And then at noon to the Exchange and to my little goldsmith's, whose wife is very pretty and modest, that ever I saw any. -- Pepys' Diary, 9 Nov. 1666 pepys/237

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. ... it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which … emerson/28