being a collection of chapbooks, full of histories, jests, magic, amorous tales of courtship, marriage and infidelity, accounts of rogues and fools, together with comments on the times
Contains selections from the diary of sixteenth-century English diarist and civil servant Samuel Pepys, written between 1660 and 1669, a period that encompassed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, and the burning of London.