On This Day 341 Years Ago

..the last entry, 31 May 1669 ..

And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journall [sic], I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear...And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepares me!

Well, maybe our eyes are almost undone every time we take up the laptop, so who knows if there will ever be any more entries. There again Pepys lived for another 34 years, dying at Clapham (in the Seventeenth Century that was nothing like as ignominious as it would be in the Twenty-first) having served as President of the Royal Society, and imprisoned on suspicions (never proven) of Jacobitism, though he was good mates with the former James II. He never went blind.