Samuel pepys quotes
“Up, and put my coloured suit on, very fine, and my
new periwig, bought a good while since, but durst not
wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I
bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion
after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will
dare to buy any hair for fear of infection, that it had
been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.”
“I went on a walk to Greenwich, on my way seeing a
coffin with a dead body in it, dead of plague. It lay in
an open yard . . . It was carried there last night, and
the parish has not told anybody to bury it. This disease
makes us more cruel to one another than we are to
dogs.”
“The people die so, that it now seems they are willing
to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights
not being long enough to do it. And my Lord Mayor
commands people to be inside by nine at night that the
sick may leave their domestic prison for air and
exercise.”
“. . . to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come
into the city . . . but where should it begin but in my
good friend and neighbour‘s, Dr. Burnett in Fenchurch
Street . . . To my bed, being troubled at the sickness . . .
and particularly how to put my things and estate in
order, in case it should please God to call me away.”
“Great fear of the sickness here in the City, it being
said that two or three houses are already shut up. God
preserve us all.”
“This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane
see two or three houses marked with a read cross upon
the doors, and ‘Lord Have Mercy Upon Us’ writ
there – which was a sad sight to me, being the first of
that kind . . . that I ever saw. It put me into an ill
conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced
to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chew, which took
away the apprehension.”
“Up, and put my coloured suit on, very fine, and my
new periwig, bought a good while since, but durst not
wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I
bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion
after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will
dare to buy any hair for fear of infection, that it had
been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.”
“I went on a walk to Greenwich, on my way seeing a
coffin with a dead body in it, dead of plague. It lay in
an open yard . . . It was carried there last night, and
the parish has not told anybody to bury it. This disease
makes us more cruel to one another than we are to
dogs.”
“The people die so, that it now seems they are willing
to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights
not being long enough to do it. And my Lord Mayor
commands people to be inside by nine at night that the
sick may leave their domestic prison for air and
exercise.”
“. . . to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come
into the city . . . but where should it begin but in my
good friend and neighbour‘s, Dr. Burnett in Fenchurch
Street . . . To my bed, being troubled at the sickness . . .
and particularly how to put my things and estate in
order, in case it should please God to call me away.”
“Great fear of the sickness here in the City, it being
said that two or three houses are already shut up. God
preserve us all.”
“This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane
see two or three houses marked with a read cross upon
the doors, and ‘Lord Have Mercy Upon Us’ writ
there – which was a sad sight to me, being the first of
that kind . . . that I ever saw. It put me into an ill
conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced
to buy some roll-tobacco to smell and chew, which took
away the apprehension.”