Reformed

All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting out my bill for 50l. for the last quarter, which I got done with a great deal of ease, which is not common.
After that with Mr. Turner to the Dolphin and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with his wife, a pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very merry after dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell’s kinswoman that was there. Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him the place of the great Wardrobe.
My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I to my fathers, and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to bed.

morning of my last one
no common drunk

a bell is a fine woman
with an old wardrobe

again my fathers
see me to bed


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 15 June 1660.

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