Up and to the Paynter’s to see how he went forward in our picture. So back again to dinner at home, and then was sent for to the Privy Seal, whither I was forced to go and stay so long and late that I was much vexed. At last we got all done, and then made haste to the office, where they were sat, and there we sat late, and so home to supper and to Selden, “Mare Clausum,” and so to bed.
to see for a picture
the sea
to go and stay
as we go to the office
here we sat and there
we met a mare
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 17 December 1661.