Excerpt from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 Yet he will enjoy himself. He is thirty-three, and will gather rose-buds while he may; not wait to enjoy life when his powers of enjoyment are decayed. He counts his gains from time to time is worth on the 4th of March; this has become by the end of April; and is on the 3rd of July. He is profiting by opportunities of war-time, but what is that to the robbery everywhere about him in the public service; beginning with the king, though Pepys does not hint at that. Only he works a little sum, counts up the money paid by the country for the war, and money spent upon the war, then asks what has become of the balance, His Diary, however, helps us to understand what had become, of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.