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Thursday 9 August 1660

Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt’s and I to my Lord’s, and from thence with judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were very merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having signed some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in King Street, and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and after dinner, parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to visit her. She being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy Seal, where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne again, who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and did give us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having my head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne’s, came home and so to bed, not well, and very ill all night.

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  • N vincent on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 01:05am

    “Thence I, having my head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne’s, came home and so to bed, not well, and very ill all night.”
    Enough said ‘tis the life. Who said history does not repeat it self?

  • N chip on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 04:36am

    L&M note that John Hayward was soon afterwards displaced from his command and the Plymouth prevented from setting off until early October. I don’t know who said history does not repeat itself. But was it not Marx who said that it does, the first time as tragedy, the second time as folly? Pepys is learning to live the high life. Like most of us, a little sex and he is very merry.

  • N chip on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 02:04pm

    First time as tragedy, second time as farse I remembered in bed last night. Still not sure who said it.

  • N Alan Bedford on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 03:23pm

    “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” - attributed to Karl Marx in the Columbia Book of Quotations. You got it more-or-less correct, Chip.

  • N Alan Bedford on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 03:50pm

    A bit more accurately, in the opening phrases of the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte:

  • N Judy on Sun 10 Aug 2003, 09:23pm

  • N language hat on Tue 12 Aug 2003, 01:32am

    “the second as farce”
    I hope Phil will forgive the continued off-topicness, but I have to share one of my favorite Alex Cockburn quotes on this subject:

    “In his 1973 NLR/Penguin edition, David Fernbach claimed that it is doubtful whether Hegel ever said any such thing. On the other hand, Engels had recently written Marx a letter in which he observed, ‘It really seems as if old Hegel in his grave were acting as World Spirit and directing history, ordaining most conscientiously that it should all be unrolled twice over, once as a great tragedy and once as a wretched farce.’ Marx obviously thought it was a bit more dignified to cite Hegel than to say ‘Fred Engels was saying to me only the other day…’”

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