A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to shore without my leave did vex me much.
At dinner news was brought us that my Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on board as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, but upon what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so that when I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to wrap myself up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night.
a day without news
brought us a dove
I respect what
I do not know
so I wrap myself
up in a sheet
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 19 April 1660.