All the morning with my workmen with great pleasure to see them near coming to an end. At noon Mr. Moore and I went to an Ordinary at the King’s Head in Towre Street, and there had a dirty dinner. Afterwards home and having done some business with him, in comes Mr. Sheply and Pierce the surgeon, and they and I to the Mitre and there staid a while and drank, and so home and after a little reading to bed.
in my great ear
ordinary dirt
war and sin
and the urge to rest
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 April 1661.