Purveyor belt

And about 4 o’clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay in the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions for London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and tickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries that they had above the number that the Council had set in their last establishment.
After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till night, then to bed.

where did I pack
directions for sleep
giving out tickets
to the last establishment
after the afternoon


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 April 1660.

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