Higher powers

Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and thence out with my wife and girle, and left them at her tailor’s, and I to the Treasury, and there did a little business for Tangier, and so took them up again, and home, and when I had done at the office, being post night, I to my chamber, and there did something more, and so to supper and to bed.

all lit up
an ice being I am
her something upper

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 5 November 1667.

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