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  • 2020-07-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Samuel Pepys Write 'The Taverns Are Full of Gadabouts' in 1665? (en)
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  • In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how gadabouts (defined by Cambridge Dictionary as a person who goes out a lot and does not worry about other things they should be doing) were still frequenting taverns despite the risk of contracting the plague: There are two slightly differing versions of the passage, one describing the taverns as full of gadabouts (as in the above meme), and the other describing them as fair full of gadabouts, as in the example below: This is not a genuine quote from Pepys. This is a modern piece of writing that originated with a social media account parodying Pepys. Pepys was a naval administrator and member of English Parliament. He was most famous, however, for recording a daily diary for nearly 10 years starting in 1660. Pepys wrote about several significant historical events during this time period, such as the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Great Fire of London, and the Great Plague of London in 1665. The above-displayed passage, however, was not written by him. This quote originated with the Twitter account @Pepys_Diaries, a sort of parody account that reimagines Pepys as if he were a modern-day writer. This account provides a pretty big clue that these are not real quotes, as it uses the handle FakeyPepys. Also, it is noted in the account's bio that quotes from the real Pepys can be found on the Twitter account @SamuelPepys. On March 20, 2020, the parody account posted the now-viral quote: Oddly enough, this is not the only entity posting fake diary entries from Pepys as if they were written during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic. On March 9, for instance, The Fence magazine published the Coronavirus Diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepysdiary.com, a website dedicated to Pepys' actual writings, addressed this misquote in a March 2020 article. The website noted that another quote from the parody account had also gone viral: (en)
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