(Lord’s day). Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to bed.
a day of skirts
my false gold
the evening came
with a prayer
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 13 October 1661.