Wednesday 26 October 1664 ...Up, my people rising mighty betimes, to fit themselves to go by water; and my boy, he could not sleep, but wakes about four o’clock, and in bed lay playing on his lute till daylight, and, it seems, did the like last night till twelve o’clock.... Better playing the lute than fiddling with an electronic device. My goodness what a day our Pepys had. It makes me...

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