Friday 9 September 1664 After a difficult dinner party Pepys relaxes with his wife and family 'singing and fiddling' ..and so back again home, and there my wife and Mercer and Tom and I sat till eleven at night, singing and fiddling, and a great joy it is to see me master of so much pleasure in my house, that it is and will be still, I hope, a constant pleasure to me to be at home. The girle...

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