Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning. And at noon home, and my father came and dined with me, Susan being come and helped my wife to dress dinner. After dinner my father and I talked about our country-matters, and in fine I find that he thinks 50l. per ann. will go near to keep them all, which I am glad of. He having taken his leave of me and my wife without any mention of the differences between them and my wife in the country, I went forth to several places about businesses, and so home again, and after prayers to bed.
dinner after dinner
my father and I talk
out-think them all
without any mention
of the differences
we pray to
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 18 August 1663.