At home all the morning practising to sing, which is now my great trade, and at noon to my Lady and dined with her. So back and to the office, and there sat till 7 at night, and then Sir W. Pen and I in his coach went to Moorefields, and there walked, and stood and saw the wrestling, which I never saw so much of before, between the north and west countrymen.
So home, and this night had our bed set up in our room that we called the Nursery, where we lay, and I am very much pleased with the room.
Morning is now my night.
I saw rest I never saw before,
the bed I call Nurse,
and I lease the room.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 28 June 1661.