...valentines." The names of valentines were at that time to be drawn for. Two days after date Pepys writes, " I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me, which 1 was not sorry for, it easing me of something more that I must have given to others. But here I do...

...but that I must have laid out if we had not been valentines." Two days subsequently, he adds, — " I find that Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my valentine,...was not sorry for, it easing me of something 'more than I must have given -to others." Noticing, shortly afterwards, the jewels of Mistress Stuart, who...

...for it, as it eased him of something more that he must have given to others. ' But here,' he says, ' I do first observe the fashion of drawing of mottos as well as names. What mine was I have forgot, but my wife's was, " Most courteous and most fair.'" This collocation...