Down and out

Singing-master came to me this morning; then to the office all the morning. In the afternoon I went to the Theatre, and there I saw “The Tamer Tamed” well done. And then home, and prepared to go to Walthamstow to-morrow.
This night I was forced to borrow 40l. of Sir W. Batten.

gin this morning
ice in the afternoon heat

and here I am tomorrow
forced to borrow


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 31 July 1661.

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