All the morning at the office, and after dinner with my wife and Deb. to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “The Slighted Maid,” but a mean play; and thence home there being little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become very homely, and sings meanly, I think, to what I thought she did.
in a din of light
meth being little pleasure now
I become very homely
and sing a thin thought
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 28 July 1668