"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

23 February 2019

Happy Birthday, Pepys.

Hayls, Samuel Pepys, 1666


Samuel Pepys was born on this day in 1633.

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 haire for fear of the infection - that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague. 

Samuel Pepys, Diary entry, 3 September 1665

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