Mr.
He was "admonished" on one occasion for "having been scandalously overserved with drink ye night before.".
Even when at Cambridge he gave evidence of certain susceptibilities to the sins of the flesh.
He was a Puritan, indeed, only north-north-west.
Shepley to the Sun Tavern, and did give them some oysters." Pepys was a spectator and a gourmet even more than he was a Puritan.
From thence to my Lord\'s, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. "Thus it was my chance," he comments, "to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.
True, when it came to the turn of the Puritans to suffer, he went, with a fine impartiality, to see General Harrison disembowelled at Charing Cross.
Christmas, should remember these strong words.
He tells us himself that he "was a great Roundhead when I was a boy," and that, on the day on which King Charles was beheaded, he said: "Were I to preach on him, my Text should be-\'the memory of the wicked shall rot.\'" After the Restoration he was uneasy lest his old schoolfellow, Mr.
Pepys a Puritan, however, one does not do so for the love of paradox or at a guess.
If one calls Mr.
He almost persuaded one that it was true till the later discovery of Bunyan\'s name on the muster-roll of one of Cromwell\'s regiments showed that he had been a Puritan from the beginning.
Froude once painted a portrait of Bunyan as an old Cavalier.
Pepys was a Puritan.
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