At the office all the morning. After office done, went and eat some Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some company; dined and staid there talking all the afternoon; and late after dinner took Mrs. Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the “Beggar’s Bush,” without much pleasure, but only for a frolique, and so home again.
at the office we oysters
talk all afternoon
at the theater we beggars
only frolic
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 8 October 1661.