Friday 14 June 1661

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• N A. De Araujo on Mon 14 Jun 2004, 11:18pm

  “I broke wind” Is he having a “head cold” a “chest cold” or an “intestinal cold”?

• N chris on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 12:53am

  Sam is putting a respectable gloss on his symptoms, isn’t he? He has a hangover from yesterday’s excesses with young Kenersly and company.

• N daniel on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 02:04am

  Indeed, Chris.
  i believe the diagnosis would be general grottiness after “a great deal both beer and wine”. never mix, never worry , Sam. He at least admits to “playing the fool”. the arrival of a triangle virginall, otherwise a welcome sight, might this time caused much annoyance and frustration for poor hung-over Sam.

• N vicente on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 03:57am

  “… his family come to lie during my Lord

• N Paul Chapin on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 05:07am

  The other Mr. Edward Montagu again
  Here it is even clearer than it was the other day that this Mr. Edward Montagu is not “my Lord” [Sandwich], but is housesitting for my Lord in his absence. I suggested previously that it might be Manchester (among the various extant Edward Montagus). Does anyone have any evidence to the contrary? In any case, both links should be amended.

• N Pauline on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 06:07am

  The other Mr. Edward Montagu
  Paul, Phil has made the correction on June 10 from “my lord” to the most likely choice, Manchester. To request the correction for today, email Phil. As we read together daily, and with our discussion, we are responsible for such refining.

• N Mary on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 07:39am

  Sam’s indisposition.

  For ‘cold’ one might substitute ‘colic’. Beer, wine AND fresh cherries? It sounds a troublesome mixture.

• N Mary on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 07:42am

  “his shipp”

  (Per L&M footnote) This was a model of the Royal James, which Pepys hung in his room. We shall meet this model again in October.

• N Australian Susan on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 10:38am

  “shipp”
  So the “query glass” added by Wheatley(?) was just put there as he did not make the connection with the model??
  Was a “shipp glass” some form of chronometer? Or hadn’t those come into use yet?

• N Rich Merne on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 11:14am

  ‘ships glass’ As far as I know a ships glass is the archaic term for a ships telescope.

• N Rich Merne on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 11:53am

  “playing the fool”, While it’s clear that Sam couldn’t be but hung over, he seems to genuinely attribute his malaise, (all of it) to dipping his feet yesterday. How he connects his “break of wind” to the dipping is a mystery ! I think he is suffering from two (and combined) ailments, a chill and a sick head/stomach. His *fart* eased the latter; and he thinks, “ah!, I mustn’t go dipping my feet over the side again, a body can get a nasty dose of cold, ‘and wind’, from playing the fool like that” sic.

• N Australian Susan on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 12:41pm

  Getting wet feet
  Sam is demonstrating the old wives’ tale, that getting cold gives you a cold! He is also showing that the Englishman’s obsession with his bowels goes back a long way. Actually, probably a lot further - Chaucer goes on about bowel function quite a bit…
  Was it Dr Jonathan Miller who said that the English are obsessed with the last four feet of their intestines?

• N Hic Retearius on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 03:53pm

  Another meaning?

  We of today automatically take Sam

• N Rex Gordon on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 04:02pm

  ” … I shall breake my winde …”

  Ah yes, Hic, but this is Falstaff talking and one can be sure the entendre was double. Else, where’s the laugh?

• N JWB on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 04:36pm

  Ed of Eds
  I think it’s the son,Jemima’s eldest. He’d be ca. 16 years old.

• N JWB on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 08:12pm

  Eds again
  I’m wrong. 1)Little Jem’s the eldest & 2)Ned’s off to France with Sid.

• N Australian Susan on Tue 15 Jun 2004, 11:31pm

  “Broken-winded”
  I think this also refers to horses which have passed their use by date.

• N vicente on Wed 16 Jun 2004, 02:59am

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• N Mary on Wed 16 Jun 2004, 08:03am

  the question of wind.

  ‘Breaking one’s wind’, ‘broken-winded’ surely refer to lung-function and general fitness. ‘Breaking wind’ refers to farting.

  Sam was colicky; felt better after breaking wind. As you would.

• N richard merne on Wed 16 Jun 2004, 03:46pm

  The windy question;
  Yes, “exceedingly well done of my lady”(ies). Now that you’ve brought it up, (oops!) I remember from when I was younger, the term ‘wind-broken’ horse. It clearly referred to an animal which had no huff or puff left. Applied thus, it had nothing to do with the animal’s renowned propensity for *breaking wind*. You’d have had to differentiate between ends.

• N bitter o salt on Fri 10 Aug 2007, 07:17pm

  breake wind: the phrase has been around a while, refering to either end of the digestive tract

  b. So to break one’s brain, mind, wind (cf. BROKEN-WINDED). Obs….c1340
  1596 SHAKES. 1 Hen. IV, II. ii. 13 If I trauel but foure foot..further a foote I shall breake my winde.

  1647 WARD Simp. Cobler 22 It would breake his [the Devil’s] wind and wits to attend such a Province.

  
  47. to break wind: to void wind from the stomach or bowels. [But cf. BRAKE v.5 to void from the stomach.]
  [1540…

  1636 HEALEY tr. Theophrast. Char. 45 He lying along, belcheth or breaketh wind.

  
  2. a. Breathing; hard breathing; esp. of animals.
  1523 FITZHERB. Husb. §87 Broken wynded, and pursyfnes, is but shorte blowynge.
  1591 PERCIVALL Sp. Dict., Bufido, the puffing and blowing of a horse.

  
  broken-winded

  1580 BARET Alv. s.v. Flanke, To moue the flanks like a broken winded horse.
  1607 DEKKER Westw. Hoe Wks. 1873 II.

  I shall cough like a broken winded horse.

  OED broken wind

  An incurable disease of the organs of respiration in horses, caused by the rupture of the air-cells, which disables them from bearing fatigue…..1753