Pepys reflections

 

I know it's only been one day but a new craze has hit my circle of association. Using insults of old to not only offend but confuse and the number one contender goes to Samuel Pepys and his barb impertinent prating coxcombe

from is diary April 22nd 1666 describing someone he hadn't seen in some time,

"find him the same impertinent, prating (to talk foolishly or at a tedious length about something) coxcombe (a vain and conceited man; a dandy) that ever he was."

this may come across as a bit of a paradox as he looks a bit of a dandy himself and his conceit in the department of extra marital affairs becomes legion the further you read the diary

I am thinking my next project, should I decide to accept it, is to collate the insults of Samuel Pepys. This will be huge for the reason that it will involve reading the entire series. Maybe I'll take it a year at a time.

Added to this, there will be some reflection of all these entries once the plague is over