At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at a great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tar merchants, and very merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall went to see my Lady Kingston, her brother’s lady.
all great tar
merchants err
till night and day
seem brothers
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 15 March 1660/61.