Up in the morning and took coach, and so to Gilford, where we lay at the Red Lyon, the best Inn, and lay in the room the King lately lay in, where we had time to see the Hospital, built by Archbishop Abbott, and the free school, and were civilly treated by the Mayster.
So to supper, and to bed, being very merry about our discourse with the Drawers concerning the minister of the Town, with a red face and a girdle. So to bed, where we lay and sleep well.
up in the morning
to a red room
where it is May
and very merry
a discourse with
the minister of sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 May 1661.