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The progressive tense occurs in Pepys's Diary , as for example in his entry for February 3, 1665: “She was dressing herself by the fire.
On the other hand, Pepys's English, while familiar enough to us, may sound slightly nonstandard, as where past-tense forms and past participles are coalesced.
On the one hand, Pepys's English may seem slightly stilted or Biblical by modern standards, with frequent absolute constructions and the use of do as an auxiliary for affirmative verbs where no emphasis is intended, as, for example, in his entry for August 31, 1662, where he thanks “Almighty God, who doth most manifestly bless me in my endeavors to do the duty of my office--I now saving money, and my expenses being very little.”
Despite such interesting differences as are noted above, the language of Pepys's journal, however dated, is not generically unlike what we might expect to find in a secret journal kept by a yuppie bureaucrat of our times.
Pepys does not use they and its inflected forms as an indefinite singular pronoun nearly as commonly as we do in such constructions as “Everyone on their feet!”