Proverbial (11)

Sir George Carteret, Sir Williams both and myself all the morning at the office passing the Victualler’s accounts, and at noon to dinner at the Dolphin, where a good chine of beef and other good cheer.
At dinner Sir George showed me an account in French of the great famine, which is to the greatest extremity in some part of France at this day, which is very strange.
So to the Exchange, Mrs. Turner (who I found sick in bed), and several other places about business, and so home. Supper and to bed.

A chin of good cheer
in a famine
is the greatest extremity.

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Some part of this day
is another.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 9 April 1662.

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