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I burst immediately, in a discourse
With a Dutch merchant, ’bout ragion del stato.
From him I went and paid a moccinigo
For piecing my silk stockings; by the way
I cheapen’d sprats; and at St. Mark’s I urined .
’Faith these are politic notes!
Sir P . Sir, I do slip
No action of my life, but thus I quote it.
Per. Believe me, it is wise!
Sir P . Nay, sir, read forth.
There can be, then, no mystery about why Sam Pepys
kept just this kind of diary half a century later. It was a
discipline of observation and precision for the would-be
Machiavellian merchant. To the Elizabethan audience Iago’s
apologia in the first scene of Othello would have labelled him an