Up betimes and to my office, where first I ruled with red ink my English “Mare Clausum,” which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now very handsome. So to business, and then home to dinner, and after dinner to sit at the office in the afternoon, and thence to my study late, and so home to supper to play a game at cards with my wife, and so to bed. Ashwell plays well at cards, and will teach us to play; I wish it do not lose too much of my time, and put my wife too much upon it.
I rule with a new hand
in the afternoon game
cards play at cards
and teach us to wish
not too much
of time
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 21 April 1663.