oh, Pepys

[tempestsarekind]

This whole entry, man (various emphases mine):

So made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth 1000l. per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he,

Comments

[negothick]

"tryangle" is actually a pretty good term for the virginals, though (as this page demonstrates) they were often enclosed in a box of another geometric shape, polygonal, trapezoidal, rectangular. The string configuration is still a triangle.
http://www.denzilwraight.com/italpolyrectvirg.htm

[tempestsarekind]

Yes, I can see how it would make sense! I'd never heard of it, though (I wonder if it's Pepys' own idiosyncratic term?), so at first I was very confused by the entry. :)