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iamn8

Lifer
Sep 8, 2014
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Moody, AL
I tasted Margate only a couple days ago, but I've smoked my way through 2oz in 48hrs. I'm so thankful to have found a tobacco I like as much, possibly more, than Penzance. I'm tickled to death i like something so much that is FAR more easy to find than Penzance. It's a seriously stellar smoke and I sincerely hope VERY few people agree :(

 

ericusrex

Lifer
Feb 27, 2015
1,175
3
Snowhill - you can find most of these 'lesser' Esotericas at Pipesandcigars.com or paylesspipes.com....and some others.

 

brewshooter

Lifer
Jun 2, 2011
1,658
4
I do like Stonehaven and Penzance, but also have Tilbury, And So To Bed and Blackpoopl in my cellar.

 

hiplainsdrifter

Part of the Furniture Now
Jan 8, 2012
977
14
The only Esoterica I have tried other than SH and Penz is Tilbury, and I liked it a lot- a great summer smoke. I have some Margate in the cellar but probably won't open it for another year or so.

 
S

seadogontheland

Guest
Tilbury is an excellent mixture of VAs, it has a really nice sweetish-red wine flavor.

 
May 31, 2012
4,295
37
Availability, even for these forgotten Esoterica blends, is spotty at best. I see them pop up from time to time, but only rarely. Where do you all find these blends for sale?
Mars Cigars sells 2oz. loose when they have sufficient quantities available,

this was how I went about sampling the Esoterica range...
http://www.marscigars.com/esoterica.aspx
:!:

 

jkrug

Lifer
Jan 23, 2015
2,867
9
I was able to score some Penzance a while back. I kept a few bowls worth out to try and cellared the rest. I thought it was quite good and look forward to trying it with some age on it. I have a tin of Pembroke and Margate that I recently tossed in the cellar to age awhile before trying it. My experience is limited for sure but I wouldn't call any of Esoterica's blends easy to acquire. :puffy:

 

shanelktown

Lifer
Feb 10, 2015
1,041
71
I am personally a fan of and so to bed and margate. I probably like and so to bed more then the margate though. They have some aromatics in that line up as well but none have sparked my interest. I still have an unopened tin of pembroke that I will some day crack open. The running issue for myself is I have cut back pipe smoking drastically and really any current purchases are in a cellar. I do enjoy having the occasional smoke to review a blend that sparks my interest.

 

quantumboy

Lurker
Sep 2, 2015
7
0
It's been a long time since I've had Margate, but in my spreadsheet I gave it four stars. I remember liking it a lot, but don't remember the specifics. I have about a pound stashed, so maybe it's time to break it out again. Thanks for the reminder!

 

sthbkr77

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 17, 2015
221
0
MD
ASTB is a wonderful smoke, not at all what I anticipated based on the label description but delicious nonetheless. I have quite a bit of Ramsgate jarred up but only reach for it on occasion. Margate and Dunbar are on my list to try very soon, I have high hopes for Margate.

 
May 31, 2012
4,295
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20s. in money, and what wine she

needed, for the burying him
A good handsome wench I kissed, the

first that I have seen
A fair salute on horseback, in

Rochester streets, of the lady
A most conceited fellow and not over

much in him
A conceited man, but of no Logique in

his head at all
A pretty man, I would be content to

break a commandment with him
A lady spit backward upon me by a

mistake
A play not very good, though commended

much
A cat will be a cat still
A book the Bishops will not let be

printed again
A most tedious, unreasonable, and

impertinent sermon
About two o'clock, too late and too

soon to go home to bed
Academy was dissolved by order of the

Pope
Act of Council passed, to put out all

Papists in office
Advantage a man of the law hath over

all other people
Afeard of being louzy
After taking leave of my wife, which we

could hardly do kindly
After awhile I caressed her and parted

seeming friends
After many protestings by degrees I did

arrive at what I would
After oysters, at first course, a hash

of rabbits, a lamb
After a harsh word or two my wife and I

good friends
All ended in love
All made much worse in their report

among people than they are
All the fleas came to him and not to me
All divided that were bred so long at

school together
All may see how slippery places all

courtiers stand in
All things to be managed with faction
All the towne almost going out of towne

(Plague panic)
Ambassador—that he is an honest man

sent to lie abroad
Among many lazy people that the

diligent man becomes necessary
An exceeding pretty lass, and right for

the sport
An offer of L500 for a Baronet's

dignity
And for his beef, says he, "Look how

fat it is"
And if ever I fall on it again, I

deserve to be undone
And a deal of do of which I am weary
And they did lay pigeons to his feet
And there, did what I would with her
And so to sleep till the morning, but

was bit cruelly
And so to bed and there entertained her

with great content
And feeling for a chamber-pott, there

was none
And with the great men in curing of

their claps
And so by coach, though hard to get it,

being rainy, home
Angry, and so continued till bed, and

did not sleep friends
Aptness I have to be troubled at any

thing that crosses me
Archbishop is a wencher, and known to

be so
As much his friend as his interest will

let him
As very a gossip speaking of her

neighbours as any body
As all other women, cry, and yet talk

of other things
As he called it, the King's seventeenth

whore abroad
As all things else did not come up to

my expectations
Asleep, while the wench sat mending my

breeches by my bedside
At least 12 or 14,000 people in the

street (to see the hanging)
At a loss whether it will be better for

me to have him die
Badge of slavery upon the whole people

(taxes)
Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where

the late great fire begun
Baseness and looseness of the Court
Bath at the top of his house
Beare-garden
Because I would not be over sure of any

thing
Before I sent my boy out with them, I

beat him for a lie
Begun to smell, and so I caused it to

be set forth (corpse)
Being there, and seeming to do

something, while we do not
Being cleansed of lice this day by my

wife
Being very poor and mean as to the

bearing with trouble
Being taken with a Psalmbook or

Testament
Below what people think these great

people say and do
Best fence against the Parliament's

present fury is delay
Better now than never
Bewailing the vanity and disorders of

the age
Bite at the stone, and not at the hand

that flings it
Bleeding behind by leeches will cure

him
Bold to deliver what he thinks on every

occasion
Book itself, and both it and them not

worth a turd
Bookseller's, and there looked for

Montaigne's Essays
Bottle of strong water; whereof now and

then a sip did me good
Bought for the love of the binding

three books
Bought Montaigne's Essays, in English
Bowling-ally (where lords and ladies

are now at bowles)
Boy up to-night for his sister to teach

him to put me to bed
Bring me a periwig, but it was full of

nits
Bringing over one discontented man, you

raise up three
Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults
Broken sort of people, that have not

much to lose
Burned it, that it might not be among

my books to my shame
Business of abusing the Puritans begins

to grow stale
But a woful rude rabble there was, and

such noises
But so fearful I am of discontenting my

wife
But I think I am not bound to discover

myself
But we were friends again as we are

always
But this the world believes, and so let

them
But if she will ruin herself, I cannot

help it
But my wife vexed, which vexed me
Buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and

chaw
Buying up of goods in case there should

be war
Buying his place of my Lord Barkely
By his many words and no understanding,

confound himself
By chewing of tobacco is become very

fat and sallow
By and by met at her chamber, and there

did what I would
By her wedding-ring, I suppose he hath

married her at last
Called at a little ale-house, and had

an eele pye
Came to bed to me, but all would not

make me friends
Cannot bring myself to mind my business
Cannot be clean to go so many bodies

together in the same water
Cast stones with his horne crooke
Castlemayne is sicke again, people

think, slipping her filly
Catched cold yesterday by putting off

my stockings
Catholiques are everywhere and bold
Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear

of the Presbyterians
Charles Barkeley's greatness is only

his being pimp to the King
Chocolate was introduced into England

about the year 1652
Church, where a most insipid young

coxcomb preached
City to be burned, and the Papists to

cut our throats
Clap of the pox which he got about

twelve years ago
Clean myself with warm water; my wife

will have me
Comb my head clean, which I found so

foul with powdering
Come to see them in bed together, on

their wedding-night
Come to us out of bed in his furred

mittens and furred cap
Comely black woman.—[The old

expression for a brunette.]
Coming to lay out a great deal of money

in clothes for my wife
Commons, where there is nothing done

but by passion, and faction
Compliment from my aunt, which I take

kindly as it is unusual
Confidence, and vanity, and disparages

everything
Confusion of years in the case of the

months of January (etc.)
Consult my pillow upon that and every

great thing of my life
Content as to be at our own home, after

being abroad awhile
Contracted for her as if he had been

buying a horse
Convenience of periwiggs is so great
Could not saw above 4 inches of the

stone in a day
Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with

them, but had but little
Court is in a way to ruin all for their

pleasures
Court attendance infinite tedious
Craft and cunning concerning the buying

and choosing of horses
Credit of this office hath received by

this rogue's occasion
Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on

Shrove Tuesday
Cure of the King's evil, which he do

deny altogether
Dare not oppose it alone for making an

enemy and do no good
Declared he will never have another

public mistress again
Delight to see these poor fools decoyed

into our condition
Deliver her from the hereditary curse

of child-bearing
Desk fastened to one of the armes of

his chayre
Did dig another, and put our wine in

it; and I my Parmazan cheese
Did extremely beat him, and though it

did trouble me to do it
Did so watch to see my wife put on

drawers, which (she did)
Did take me up very prettily in one or

two things that I said
Did much insist upon the sin of

adultery
Did go to Shoe Lane to see a

cocke-fighting at a new pit there
Did find none of them within, which I

was glad of
Did tumble them all the afternoon as I

pleased
Did trouble me very much to be at

charge to no purpose
Did see the knaveries and tricks of

jockeys
Did not like that Clergy should meddle

with matters of state
Did put evil thoughts in me, but

proceeded no further
Dined with my wife on pease porridge

and nothing else
Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my

wife has resolved to kill
Dined at home alone, a good calves head

boiled and dumplings
Dinner, an ill and little mean one,

with foul cloth and dishes
Discontented at the pride and luxury of

the Court
Discontented that my wife do not go

neater now she has two maids
Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all

manner of learning
Discoursed much against a man's lying

with his wife in Lent
Discoursing upon the sad condition of

the times
Disease making us more cruel to one

another than if we are doggs
Disorder in the pit by its raining in,

from the cupola
Disquiet all night, telling of the

clock till it was daylight
Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates

in the Commons)
Do look upon me as a remembrancer of

his former vanity
Do bury still of the plague seven or

eight in a day
Doe from Cobham, when the season comes,

bucks season being past
Dog attending us, which made us all

merry again
Dog, that would turn a sheep any way

which
Doubtfull of himself, and easily be

removed from his own opinion
Down to the Whey house and drank some

and eat some curds
Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate

for preaching
Drink a dish of coffee
Driven down again with a stinke by Sir

W. Pen's shying of a pot
Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk

to one another very wanton
Duodecimal arithmetique
Durst not take notice of her, her

husband being there
Dying this last week of the plague 112,

from 43 the week before
Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that

ever I eat in my life
Eat of the best cold meats that ever I

eat on in all my life
Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay

my stomach
Eat some butter and radishes
Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces

of the true Cross)
Enquiring into the selling of places do

trouble a great many
Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis"
Even to the having bad words with my

wife, and blows too
Every man looking after himself, and

his owne lust and luxury
Every small thing is enough now-a-days

to bring a difference
Every body leads, and nobody follows
Every body is at a great losse and

nobody can tell
Every body's looks, and discourse in

the street is of death
Exceeding kind to me, more than usual,

which makes me afeard
Exclaiming against men's wearing their

hats on in the church
Excommunications, which they send upon

the least occasions
Expectation of profit will have its

force
Expected musique, the missing of which

spoiled my dinner
Faced white coat, made of one of my

wife's pettycoates
Familiarity with her other servants is

it that spoils them all
Fanatiques do say that the end of the

world is at hand
Fashionable and black spots
Fear all his kindness is but only his

lust to her
Fear that the goods and estate would be

seized (after suicide)
Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt
Fear I shall not be able to wipe my

hands of him again
Fear she should prove honest and refuse

and then tell my wife
Feared I might meet with some people

that might know me
Fearful that I might not go far enough

with my hat off
Fears some will stand for the

tolerating of Papists
Fell to sleep as if angry
Fell a-crying for joy, being all

maudlin and kissing one another
Fell to dancing, the first time that

ever I did in my life
Fetch masts from New England
Feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce

to let him blood
Few in any age that do mind anything

that is abstruse
Find that now and then a little

difference do no hurte
Find it a base copy of a good

originall, that vexed me
Find myself to over-value things when a

child
Finding my wife not sick, but yet out

of order
Finding my wife's clothes lie

carelessly laid up
Fire grow; and, as it grew darker,

appeared more and more
First time that ever I heard the organs

in a cathedral
First their apes, that they may be

afterwards their slaves
First thing of that nature I did ever

give her (L10 ring)
First time I had given her leave to

wear a black patch
Fixed that the year should commence in

January instead of March
Fool's play with which all publick

things are done
For my quiet would not enquire into it
For, for her part, she should not be

buried in the commons
For a land-tax and against a general

excise
For I will not be inward with him that

is open to another
For I will be hanged before I seek to

him, unless I see I need
Force a man to swear against himself
Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.;

servants and poor, 1s. 6d.
Forgetting many things, which her

master beat her for
Formerly say that the King was a

bastard and his mother a whore
Found my brother John at eight o'clock

in bed, which vexed me
Found him a fool, as he ever was, or

worse
Found him not so ill as I thought that

he had been ill
Found in my head and body about twenty

lice, little and great
Found to be with child, do never stir

out of their beds
Found guilty, and likely will be hanged

(for stealing spoons)
France, which is accounted the best

place for bread
Frequent trouble in things we deserve

best in
Frogs and many insects do often fall

from the sky, ready formed
From some fault in the meat to complain

of my maid's sluttery
Gadding abroad to look after beauties
Galileo's air thermometer, made before

1597
Gamester's life, which I see is very

miserable, and poor
Gave him his morning draft
Generally with corruption, but most

indeed with neglect
Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to

be kissed by the King
Get his lady to trust herself with him

into the tavern
Give the King of France Nova Scotia,

which he do not like
Give her a Lobster and do so touse her

and feel her all over
Give the other notice of the future

state, if there was any
Glad to be at friendship with me,

though we hate one another
Gladder to have just now received it

(than a promise)
God knows that I do not find honesty

enough in my own mind
God forgive me! what thoughts and

wishes I had
God help him, he wants bread.
God forgive me! what a mind I had to

her
God! what an age is this, and what a

world is this
Going with her woman to a hot-house to

bathe herself
Gold holds up its price still
Goldsmiths in supplying the King with

money at dear rates
Good sport of the bull's tossing of the

dogs
Good wine, and anchovies, and pickled

oysters (for breakfast)
Good purpose of fitting ourselves for

another war (A Peace)
Good writers are not admired by the

present
Got her upon my knee (the coach being

full) and played with her
Great thaw it is not for a man to walk

the streets
Great newes of the Swedes declaring for

us against the Dutch
Great deale of tittle tattle discourse

to little purpose
Great many silly stories they tell of

their sport
Greater number of Counsellors is, the

more confused the issue
Greatest businesses are done so

superficially
Had no more manners than to invite me

and to let me pay
Had his hand cut off, and was hanged

presently!
Had what pleasure almost I would with

her
Had the umbles of it for dinner
Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the

Still-yard, mixed with beer
Hanged with a silken halter
Hanging jack to roast birds on
Hard matter to settle to business after

so much leisure
Hate in others, and more in myself, to

be careless of keys
Hates to have any body mention what he

had done the day before
Hath not a liberty of begging till he

hath served three years
Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning

one to conceal his evil
Hath given her the pox, but I hope it

is not so
Have not known her this fortnight

almost, which is a pain to me
Have not any awe over them from the

King's displeasure (Commons)
Have not much to lose, and therefore

will venture all
Have been so long absent that I am

ashamed to go
Having some experience, but greater

conceit of it than is fit
He that will not stoop for a pin, will

never be worth a pound
He made but a poor sermon, but long
He has been inconvenienced by being too

free in discourse
He having made good promises, though I

fear his performance
He hoped he should live to see her

"ugly and willing"
He is too wise to be made a friend of
He was fain to lie in the priest's hole

a good while
He was charged with making himself

popular
He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as

well as I
He is a man of no worth in the world

but compliment
He is not a man fit to be told what one

hears
Heard noises over their head upon the

leads
Heeling her on one side to make her

draw little water
Helping to slip their calfes when there

is occasion
Her months upon her is gone to bed
Here I first saw oranges grow
Hired her to procure this poor soul for

him
His enemies have done him as much good

as he could wish
His readiness to speak spoilt all
His satisfaction is nothing worth, it

being easily got
His company ever wearys me
Holes for me to see from my closet into

the great office
Hopes to have had a bout with her

before she had gone
Houses marked with a red cross upon the

doors
How the Presbyterians would be angry if

they durst
How highly the Presbyters do talk in

the coffeehouses still
How little merit do prevail in the

world, but only favour
How little heed is had to the prisoners

and sicke and wounded
How unhappily a man may fall into a

necessity of bribing people
How natural it is for us to slight

people out of power
How little to be presumed of in our

greatest undertakings
Hugged, it being cold now in the

mornings . . . .
I took occasion to be angry with him
I could not forbear to love her

exceedingly
I do not value her, or mind her as I

ought
I did what I would, and might have done

anything else
I have itched mightily these 6 or 7

days
I know not whether to be glad or sorry
I was as merry as I could counterfeit

myself to be
I could have answered, but forbore
I have a good mind to have the

maidenhead of this girl
I know not how in the world to abstain

from reading
I fear that it must be as it can, and

not as I would
I had six noble dishes for them,

dressed by a man-cook
I find her painted, which makes me

loathe her (cosmetics)
I did get her hand to me under my cloak
I perceive no passion in a woman can be

lasting long
I having now seen a play every day this

week
I was very angry, and resolve to beat

him to-morrow
I know not yet what that is, and am

ashamed to ask
I do not like his being angry and in

debt both together to me
I will not by any over submission make

myself cheap
I slept soundly all the sermon
I and she never were so heartily angry

in our lives as to-day
I calling her beggar, and she me

pricklouse, which vexed me
I love the treason I hate the traitor
I would not enquire into anything, but

let her talk
I kissed the bride in bed, and so the

curtaines drawne
I have promised, but know not when I

shall perform
I met a dead corps of the plague, in

the narrow ally
I am a foole to be troubled at it,

since I cannot helpe it
I was exceeding free in dallying with

her, and she not unfree
I was a great Roundhead when I was a

boy
I pray God to make me able to pay for

it.
I took a broom and basted her till she

cried extremely
I was demanded L100, for the fee of the

office at 6d. a pound
I never designed to be a witness

against any man
I fear is not so good as she should be
If the exportations exceed importations
If it should come in print my name

maybe at it
Ill from my late cutting my hair so

close to my head
Ill all this day by reason of the last

night's debauch
Ill sign when we are once to come to

study how to excuse
Ill humour to be so against that which

all the world cries up
Ill-bred woman, would take exceptions

at anything any body said
In my nature am mighty unready to

answer no to anything
In men's clothes, and had the best legs

that ever I saw
In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles

it) we could dream
In discourse he seems to be wise and

say little
In perpetual trouble and vexation that

need it least
In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from

shore
In a hackney and full of people, was

ashamed to be seen
In my dining-room she was doing

something upon the pott
Inconvenience that do attend the

increase of a man's fortune
Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved

to see himself in the glass
Instructed by Shakespeare himself
Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had

settled all in one corner
It not being handsome for our servants

to sit so equal with us
Justice of God in punishing men for the

sins of their ancestors
Justice of proceeding not to condemn a

man unheard
Keep at interest, which is a good,

quiett, and easy profit
King is at the command of any woman

like a slave
King shall not be able to whip a cat
King was gone to play at Tennis
King hath lost his power, by submitting

himself to this way
King do resolve to declare the Duke of

Monmouth legitimate
King himself minding nothing but his

ease
King is not at present in purse to do
King is mighty kind to these his

bastard children
King the necessity of having, at least,

a show of religion
King be desired to put all Catholiques

out of employment
King still do doat upon his women, even

beyond all shame
King is offended with the Duke of

Richmond's marrying
King of France did think other princes

fit for nothing
King governed by his lust, and women,

and rogues about him
King do tire all his people that are

about him with early rising
King's service is undone, and those

that trust him perish
King's Proclamation against drinking,

swearing, and debauchery
Kingdom will fall back again to a

commonwealth
Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my

[rump]"
Know yourself to be secure, in being

necessary to the office
L'escholle des filles, a lewd book
Lady Castlemayne is compounding with

the King for a pension
Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and

drudge
Lady Batten to give me a spoonful of

honey for my cold
Lady Castlemaine is still as great with

the King
Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt
Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher

command over the King
Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this

time as much as ever
Laissez nous affaire—Colbert
Last day of their doubtfulness touching

her being with child
Last act of friendship in telling me of

my faults also
Laughing and jeering at every thing

that looks strange
Lay long caressing my wife and talking
Lay long in bed talking and pleasing

myself with my wife
Lay chiding, and then pleased with my

wife in bed
Lay with her to-night, which I have not

done these eight (days)
Learned the multiplication table for

the first time in 1661
Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a

woman be a maid or no
Lechery will never leave him
Let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I

being exceedingly full
Let her brew as she has baked
Lewdness and beggary of the Court
Liability of a husband to pay for goods

supplied his wife
Liberty of speech in the House
Listening to no reasoning for it, be it

good or bad
Little content most people have in the

peace
Little children employed, every one to

do something
Little worth of this world, to buy it

with so much pain
Long cloaks being now quite out
Look askew upon my wife, because my

wife do not buckle to them
Lord! to see the absurd nature of

Englishmen
Lord! in the dullest insipid manner

that ever lover did
Lust and wicked lives of the nuns

heretofore in England
Luxury and looseness of the times
Lying a great while talking and

sporting in bed with my wife
Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian
Made to drink, that they might know him

not to be a Roundhead
Made him admire my drawing a thing

presently in shorthand
Magnifying the graces of the nobility

and prelates
Make a man wonder at the good fortune

of such a fool
Man cannot live without playing the

knave and dissimulation

Matters in Ireland are full of

discontent
Meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a

scarlett feavour
Methought very ill, or else I am grown

worse to please
Milke, which I drank to take away, my

heartburne
Mirrors which makes the room seem both

bigger and lighter
Money I have not, nor can get
Money, which sweetens all things
Montaigne is conscious that we are

looking over his shoulder
Most flat dead sermon, both for matter

and manner of delivery
Most homely widow, but young, and

pretty rich, and good natured
Mr. William Pen a Quaker again
Much discourse, but little to be

learned
Musique in the morning to call up our

new-married people
Muske Millon
My wife, coming up suddenly, did find

me embracing the girl
My wife hath something in her gizzard,

that only waits
My heart beginning to falsify in this

business
My old folly and childishnesse hangs

upon me still
My new silk suit, the first that ever I

wore in my life
My Lord, who took physic to-day and was

in his chamber
My wife will keep to one another and

let the world go hang
My wife this night troubled at my

leaving her alone so much
My wife was making of her tarts and

larding of her pullets
My head was not well with the wine that

I drank to-day
My first attempt being to learn the

multiplication-table
My intention to learn to trill
Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad

in its terms
Never laughed so in all my life. I

laughed till my head ached
Never, while he lives, truckle under

any body or any faction
Never to trust too much to any man in

the world
Never was known to keep two mistresses

in his life (Charles II.)
Never could man say worse himself nor

have worse said
New Netherlands to English rule, under

the title of New York
No Parliament can, as he says, be kept

long good
No manner of means used to quench the

fire
No pleasure—only the variety of it
No money to do it with, nor anybody to

trust us without it
No man is wise at all times
No man was ever known to lose the first

time
No man knowing what to do, whether to

sell or buy
No sense nor grammar, yet in as good

words that ever I saw
No good by taking notice of it, for the

present she forbears
Nonconformists do now preach openly in

houses
None will sell us any thing without our

personal security given
Nor would become obliged too much to

any
Nor will yield that the Papists have

any ground given them
Nor was there any pretty woman that I

did see, but my wife
Nor offer anything, but just what is

drawn out of a man
Not well, and so had no pleasure at all

with my poor wife
Not eat a bit of good meat till he has

got money to pay the men
Not the greatest wits, but the steady

man
Not when we can, but when we list
Not to be censured if their necessities

drive them to bad
Not more than I expected, nor so much

by a great deal as I ought
Not thinking them safe men to receive

such a gratuity
Not permit her begin to do so, lest

worse should follow
Nothing in the world done with true

integrity
Nothing in it approaching that single

page in St. Simon
Nothing of the memory of a man, an

houre after he is dead!
Nothing is to be got without offending

God and the King
Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but

mere envy and design
Now above six months since (smoke from

the cellars)
Offer me L500 if I would desist from

the Clerk of the Acts place
Offered to stop the fire near his house

for such a reward
Officers are four years behind-hand

unpaid
Once a week or so I know a gentleman

must go . . . .
Opening his mind to him as of one that

may hereafter be his foe
Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my

quantum out of it
Ordered in the yarde six or eight

bargemen to be whipped
Origin in the use of a plane against

the grain of the wood
Out also to and fro, to see and be seen
Painful to keep money, as well as to

get it
Parliament being vehement against the

Nonconformists
Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for

every chimney in England
Parliament do agree to throw down

Popery
Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any

of his coat
Peace with France, which, as a

Presbyterian, he do not like
Pen was then turned Quaker
Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of

its nits
Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is

for ladies to wear
Pest coaches and put her into it to

carry her to a pest house
Petition against hackney coaches
Pit, where the bears are baited
Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665)
Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in

fears of it here
Plague, forty last night, the bell

always going
Play good, but spoiled with the ryme,

which breaks the sense
Pleases them mightily, and me not at

all
Poor seamen that lie starving in the

streets
Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and

Gloves
Pray God give me a heart to fear a

fall, and to prepare for it!
Presbyterians against the House of

Lords
Presse seamen, without which we cannot

really raise men
Pressing in it as if none of us had

like care with him
Pretends to a resolution of being

hereafter very clean
Pretty sayings, which are generally

like paradoxes
Pretty to see the young pretty ladies

dressed like men
Pride of some persons and vice of most

was but a sad story
Pride and debauchery of the present

clergy
Protestants as to the Church of Rome

are wholly fanatiques
Providing against a foule day to get as

much money into my hands
Put up with too much care, that I have

forgot where they are
Quakers being charmed by a string about

their wrists
Quakers do still continue, and rather

grow than lessen
Quakers and others that will not have

any bell ring for them
Rabbit not half roasted, which made me

angry with my wife
Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge

our houses
Reading to my wife and brother

something in Chaucer
Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae,"

of my Lord Bacon's
Receive the applications of people, and

hath presents
Reckon nothing money but when it is in

the bank
Reduced the Dutch settlement of New

Netherlands to English rule
Rejoiced over head and ears in this

good newes
Removing goods from one burned house to

another
Reparation for what we had embezzled
Requisite I be prepared against the

man's friendship
Resolve to have the doing of it

himself, or else to hinder it
Resolve to live well and die a beggar
Resolved to go through it, and it is

too late to help it now
Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch

business
Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by

Will. Pen, for the Quaker
Rotten teeth and false, set in with

wire
Sad sight it was: the whole City almost

on fire
Sad for want of my wife, whom I love

with all my heart
Said to die with the cleanest hands

that ever any Lord Treasurer
Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content
Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no

great sport
Saw his people go up and down louseing

themselves
Saying, that for money he might be got

to our side
Says, of all places, if there be hell,

it is here
Says of wood, that it is an excrescence

of the earth
Sceptic in all things of religion
Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"
Searchers with their rods in their

hands
See whether my wife did wear drawers

to-day as she used to do
See how a good dinner and feasting

reconciles everybody
See how time and example may alter a

man
Sent my wife to get a place to see

Turner hanged
Sent me last night, as a bribe, a

barrel of sturgeon
Sermon without affectation or study
Sermon ended, and the church broke up,

and my amours ended also
Sermon upon Original Sin, neither

understood by himself
Sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian

one, it was so long
Shakespeare's plays
Shame such a rogue should give me and

all of us this trouble
She is conceited that she do well

already
She used the word devil, which vexed me
She was so ill as to be shaved and

pidgeons put to her feet
She begins not at all to take pleasure

in me or study to please
She is a very good companion as long as

she is well
She also washed my feet in a bath of

herbs, and so to bed
She had got and used some puppy-dog

water
She hath got her teeth new done by La

Roche
She loves to be taken dressing herself,

as I always find her
She so cruel a hypocrite that she can

cry when she pleases
She finds that I am lousy
Short of what I expected, as for the

most part it do fall out
Shy of any warr hereafter, or to

prepare better for it
Sick of it and of him for it
Sicke men that are recovered, they

lying before our office doors
Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a

man to say nothing
Singing with many voices is not singing
Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we could

not try him to play
Sir W. Pen did it like a base raskall,

and so I shall remember
Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call

the wench up to wash
Slabbering my band sent home for

another
Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel

fixed in the chimney
So home to supper, and to bed, it being

my wedding night
So great a trouble is fear
So to bed, to be up betimes by the

helpe of a larum watch
So much is it against my nature to owe

anything to any body
So home, and after supper did wash my

feet, and so to bed
So home to prayers and to bed
So I took occasion to go up and to bed

in a pet
So to bed in some little discontent,

but no words from me
So home and to supper with beans and

bacon and to bed
So we went to bed and lay all night in

a quarrel
So much wine, that I was even almost

foxed
So good a nature that he cannot deny

any thing
So time do alter, and do doubtless the

like in myself
So home and to bed, where my wife had

not lain a great while
So out, and lost our way, which made me

vexed
So every thing stands still for money
Softly up to see whether any of the

beds were out of order or no
Some merry talk with a plain bold maid

of the house
Some ends of my own in what advice I do

give her
Sorry in some respect, glad in my

expectations in another respect
Sorry for doing it now, because of

obliging me to do the like
Sorry thing to be a poor King
Spares not to blame another to defend

himself
Sparrowgrass
Speaks rarely, which pleases me

mightily
Spends his time here most, playing at

bowles
Sport to me to see him so earnest on so

little occasion
Staid two hours with her kissing her,

but nothing more
Statute against selling of offices
Staying out late, and painting in the

absence of her husband
Strange things he has been found guilty

of, not fit to name
Strange the folly of men to lay and

lose so much money
Strange how civil and tractable he was

to me
Street ordered to be continued, forty

feet broad, from Paul's
Subject to be put into a disarray upon

very small occasions
Such open flattery is beastly
Suffered her humour to spend, till we

begun to be very quiet
Supper and to bed without one word one

to another
Suspect the badness of the peace we

shall make
Swear they will not go to be killed and

have no pay
Take pins out of her pocket to prick me

if I should touch her
Talk very highly of liberty of

conscience
Taught my wife some part of subtraction
Tax the same man in three or four

several capacities
Tear all that I found either boyish or

not to be worth keeping
Tell me that I speak in my dreams
That I might not seem to be afeared
That I may have nothing by me but what

is worth keeping
That I may look as a man minding

business
The unlawfull use of lawfull things
The devil being too cunning to

discourage a gamester
The most ingenious men may sometimes be

mistaken
"The Alchymist,"—[Comedy by Ben Jonson]
The barber came to trim me and wash me
The present Irish pronunciation of

English
The world do not grow old at all
The ceremonies did not please me, they

do so overdo them
The rest did give more, and did believe

that I did so too
Thence by coach, with a mad coachman,

that drove like mad
Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I

would with her
There is no passing but by coach in the

streets, and hardly that
There eat and drank, and had my

pleasure of her twice
There did 'tout ce que je voudrais

avec' her
There setting a poor man to keep my

place
There is no man almost in the City

cares a turd for him
There being ten hanged, drawn, and

quartered
These young Lords are not fit to do any

service abroad
These Lords are hard to be trusted
They were so false spelt that I was

ashamed of them
They want where to set their feet, to

begin to do any thing
This day churched, her month of

childbed being out
This absence makes us a little strange

instead of more fond
This week made a vow to myself to drink

no wine this week
This day I began to put on buckles to

my shoes
This unhappinesse of ours do give them

heart
This kind of prophane, mad

entertainment they give themselves
Those absent from prayers were to pay a

forfeit
Those bred in the North among the

colliers are good for labour
Though he knows, if he be not a fool,

that I love him not
Thus it was my chance to see the King

beheaded at White Hall
Tied our men back to back, and thrown

them all into the sea
To Mr. Holliard's in the morning,

thinking to be let blood
To be enjoyed while we are young and

capable of these joys
To see Major-general Harrison hanged,

drawn; and quartered
To the Swan and drank our morning draft
To see the bride put to bed
Too much of it will make her know her

force too much
Took physique, and it did work very

well
Tory—The term was not used politically

until about 1679
Tried the effect of my silence and not

provoking her
Trouble, and more money, to every

Watch, to them to drink
Troubled me, to see the confidence of

the vice of the age
Trumpets were brought under the

scaffold that he not be heard
Turn out every man that will be drunk,

they must turn out all
Two shops in three, if not more,

generally shut up
Uncertainty of all history
Uncertainty of beauty
Unless my too-much addiction to

pleasure undo me
Unquiet which her ripping up of old

faults will give me
Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick

of her months
Up, finding our beds good, but lousy;

which made us merry
Up and took physique, but such as to go

abroad with
Upon a very small occasion had a

difference again broke out
Venison-pasty that we have for supper

to-night to the cook's
Very angry we were, but quickly friends

again
Very great tax; but yet I do think it

is so perplexed
Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving

of her scarf
Vexed me, but I made no matter of it,

but vexed to myself
Vices of the Court, and how the pox is

so common there
Voyage to Newcastle for coles
Waked this morning between four and

five by my blackbird
Was kissing my wife, which I did not

like
We are to go to law never to revenge,

but only to repayre
We had a good surloyne of rost beefe
Weary of it; but it will please the

citizens

Weather being very wet and hot to keep

meat in.
What way a man could devise to lose so

much in so little time
What I said would not hold water
What I had writ foule in short hand
What they all, through profit or fear,

did promise
What a sorry dispatch these great

persons give to business
What is there more to be had of a woman

than the possessing her
Where money is free, there is great

plenty
Where I find the worst very good
Where a piece of the Cross is
Where a trade hath once been and do

decay, it never recovers
Where I expect most I find least

satisfaction
Wherein every party has laboured to

cheat another
Which he left him in the lurch
Which I did give him some hope of,

though I never intend it
Whip this child till the blood come, if

it were my child!
Whip a boy at each place they stop at

in their procession
Who is the most, and promises the

least, of any man
Who we found ill still, but he do make

very much of it
Who must except against every thing and

remedy nothing
Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be

seen with him
Willing to receive a bribe if it were

offered me
Wine, new and old, with labells pasted

upon each bottle
Wise man's not being wise at all times
Wise men do prepare to remove abroad

what they have
With much ado in an hour getting a

coach home
With a shower of hail as big as walnuts
Wonders that she cannot be as good

within as she is fair without
World sees now the use of them for

shelter of men (fore-castles)
Would make a dogg laugh
Would either conform, or be more wise,

and not be catched!
Would not make my coming troublesome to

any
Wretch, n., often used as an expression

of endearment
Wronged by my over great expectations
Ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of

ye fire
And so to bed.

 
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Note to self:

I would have never known who Samuel Pepys was or what he writ unless it was for reading references about Esoterica's ASTB.
I had thought David Markson to be a singular genius of writing,

until that is,

I saw what Pepys had done way back when and how more than likely Markson had been influenced by him,

yet intensified with an ultramodernist bent.
Markson is still rated a genius by me though,

a reading of his 1961 novella Epitaph for a Dead Beat solidifies it for me.
And,

I do very much love all his late work,

it makes you think.
And,

thinking is good.
:puffy:

 
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