(Lord’s day).
My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone.
To church again, where, before sermon, a long Psalm was set that lasted an hour, while the sexton gathered his year’s contribucion through the whole church.
After sermon home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr. Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do preserve among my other letters.
So to supper, and thence after prayers to bed.
my wife is an oiled
leg of church
a long psalm
sex a red letter
I preserve among
my other prayers
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 6 January 1660/61 (a slight revision from 2014).