Tone deaf

All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes and whistle like a bird exceeding well, and I had a fancy to learn to whistle as he do, and did promise to come some other day and give him an angell to teach me. To the office, and sat there all the afternoon till 9 at night. So home to my musique, and my wife and I sat singing in my chamber a good while together, and then to bed.

A lamb to change
into a bagpipe,
like angel to wife:
I sing in my chamber.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 17 May 1661.

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