(Lord’s day). To church in the morning, and then home and dined with my wife, and so both of us to church again, where we had an Oxford man give us a most impertinent sermon upon “Cast your bread upon the waters,” &c. So home to read, supper, and to prayers, and then to bed.
to church with a sob
for a most impertinent sermon
cast upon the water
a prayer to be
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 February 1661/62.