Gain and Ache

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Gain and ache are the greatest guides.
We lay with women, being pretty handsome.
We went to bed, being somewhat ill,
afterwards disputing for and against
extemporary prayer.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 April 1660.

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