bed.'

_Dec. 19, 1666._--'Home full of trouble on these
considerations, and, among other things, I to my
chamber, and there to ticket a good part of my
books, in order to the numbering of them for my
easy finding them to read as I have occasion.'

_Jan. 8, 1666-67._--'So home and to supper, and
then saw the catalogue of my books, which my
brother had wrote out, now perfectly
alphabeticall, and so to bed.'

_Feb. 4, 1666-67._--'Mightily pleased with the
play, we home by coach, and there a little to the
office, and then to my chamber, and there finished
my catalogue of my books with my own hand, and so
to supper and to bed, and had a good night's rest,
the last night's being troublesome, but now my
heart light and full of resolution of standing
close to my business.'

_Feb. 8, 1667-68._--'Thence away to the Strand, to
my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and
bought the idle, rogueish book, _L'escholle des
filles_, which I have bought in plain binding,
avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I
resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it,
that it may not stand in the list of books, nor
among them, to disgrace them if it should be
found. Thence home, and busy late at the office,
and then home to supper and to bed.'

[32] _Index Rhetoricus_, of Thomas Farnaby, was a book which went
through several editions. The first was published at London, by R.
Allot, in 1633.

[33] The first edition of Butler's _Hudibras_ is dated 1663, and it
probably had only been published a few days when Pepys bought it and
sold it at a loss. He subsequently endeavoured to appreciate the work,
but was not successful. The edition in the Pepysian Library is dated
1689.

[34] This was Speght's edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian
Library. The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. It is
not lettered.

[35] These presses still exist, and, according to Pepys' wish, they are
placed in the second court of Magdalene College, in a room which they
exactly fit, and the books are arranged in the presses just as they were
when presented to the college.

[36] _Tatler_, No. 158.

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