Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the morning, and after dinner thither again, and all the afternoon hard at the office till night, and so tired home to supper and to bed.
This day I heard that my uncle Fenner is dead, which makes me a little sad, to see with what speed a great many of my friends are gone, and more, I fear, for my father’s sake, are going.
all the morning
all the tired dead
make me eat one more fear
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 24 May 1664.