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32 play upon some instrument, for though her eare be bad yet I see she will attain any thing to be done by her hand.

Henceforth Pepys has a happy household. He records how one August evening he made his wife play the flageolet,

Do not imagine, however, that he has forgotten his dear Mercer! He continues to arrange singing parties to include her—above all when his wife is not present: