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Last act of friendship in telling me of my faults also

Laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange

Lay long caressing my wife and talking

Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife

Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed

Lay with her to-night, which I have not done these eight (days)

Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661

Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no

Lechery will never leave him

Let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceedingly full

Let her brew as she has baked

Lewdness and beggary of the Court

Liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied his wife

Liberty of speech in the House

Listening to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad

Little content most people have in the peace

Little children employed, every one to do something

Little worth of this world, to buy it with so much pain

Long cloaks being now quite out

Look askew upon my wife, because my wife do not buckle to them

Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen

Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did

Lust and wicked lives of the nuns heretofore in England

Luxury and looseness of the times

Lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife

Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian

Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead

Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand

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