Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon my wife being gone to her father’s I dined with Sir W. Batten, he inviting me. After dinner to my office close, and did very much business, and so late home to supper and to bed.
The plague increased four this week, which troubles me, though but one in the whole.
I go to fat
dine to lose me
and increase
the whole
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 March 1666.