Up and to the Duke of Albemarle and White Hall, where much business. Thence home and to dinner, and then with Creed, my wife, and Mercer to a play at the Duke’s, of my Lord Orrery’s, called “Mustapha,” which being not good, made Betterton’s part and Ianthe’s but ordinary too, so that we were not contented with it at all. Thence home and to the office a while, and then home to supper and to bed. All the pleasure of the play was, the King and my Lady Castlemayne were there; and pretty witty Nell at the King’s house, and the younger Marshall sat next us; which pleased me mightily.
where sin and creed play
O Lord must I
be ordinary too
on Mars
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 3 April 1665.