Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry’s, but he gone out. I by water back to the Office, and there all the morning; then to dinner, and then to the Office again, and anon with my wife by coach to take the ayre, it being a noble day, as far as the Greene Man, mightily pleased with our journey, and our condition of doing it in our own coach, and so home, and to walk in the garden, and so to supper and to bed, my eyes being bad with writing my journal, part of it, to-night.
water back to ice
and ice to air
being no green man
I journey in our own garden
a bed in our part
of night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 6 May 1669.