Sunday 2 September 1660
(Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon “The Lord is my shield.” After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord’s (he dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett’s, and heard a good sermon upon the text “Teach us the old way,” or something like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. Crisp’s (having sent Will Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not come home to-night because of my Lord’s going out early to-morrow morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be. To my Lord’s, and to bed with Mr. Sheply.
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to this day between my Lord and I
per L&M. Wheatley appears to be cleaning up SP's grammar.
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gratuity mony
L&M footnote this as "The gratuity for his service on the voyage to Holland." This was mentioned most recently on the 14th of August 1660. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/08/14/
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"The Lord is my shield."
L&M speculate in their footnote: “A loose recollection of 2 Sam. xxii.3; or Ps. iii. 3; or Ps. xxviii. 7.” They go on to say “The chapel was that of Whitehall Palace, and the preacher Henry Ferne, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Dean of Ely.”
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"Teach us the old way," or something like it
L&M: “Possibly 1 Kings, viii. 36: ‘that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk’.”
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farewell cup to Laud Crisp.
Per L&M: "The Crisps' son, now entering Sandwich's service" Coincidently starting a great tradition in fast food.
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"and I fear is not so good as she should be"
Given Sam's previous enthusiastic embracing and even pursuit of a little slap-and-tickle, his apprehension here is noteworthy. Since I understand he will be merrily free with many other ladies in days yet to come, it seems likely to be either that (a) she's too young to be considered a woman, or (b) she's actually willing to *sleep* with him, whereas the normal alehouse banter is understood by all to be limited to the odd feel or kiss.
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Picking up on Paul Brewster's comment about the fast food connection starting with Sandwich and Laud Crisp, I can't help noticing that if we add Capt Thomas Bun (24 Aug) and Elizabeth Pye (8 Aug) we will get a grotesque buffet, rich in carbohydrates.
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Here we go again.
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"Teach us the old way," or something like it
L&M: "Possibly 1 Kings, viii. 36: "that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk"."
Or more likely,
Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
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If we follow the links at the bottom of the daughter's biography, we find that Pepys drank with her and her friends in Harper's on 20 August, and slept in her family's house in March.
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"and I fear is not so good as she should be"
NO BETTER THAN SHE SHOULD BE - "An early-18th-century translation by Peter Motteux of "Don Quixote" is the first to record this classic understatement, meaning "an immoral woman." Whether it was coined at this time no one knows." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
Additional references from Bartlett’s 10th Ed. for Beaumont and Fletcher & Henry Fielding: http://www.bartleby.com/100/158.12.html
I think Sam is worried he’ll get a venereal disease if daughter Crisp is as friendly to other men as she is to him.
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Mores.
What was known (understood) about transmission of VDs at the time?
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"..and I fear is not so good as she should be."
I read this as she (Diana Crisp, the daughter) is of a "good" family and thus there would be "good" expectations of her, and Sam has discovered that this is not so. What a shame for the Crisp family, living in the Ax yard near Sam and of good bearing and background to have such a daughter so poorly raised. A confusing mix of Sam having uppererclass membership expectations take a jaunt around the courtyard with his lower class roots. Shows the ideals of the upperclass were there with hope and expectations, though not necessarily obeyed.