At the office all the morning setting about business, and after dinner to it again, and so till night, and then home looking over my Brampton papers against to-morrow that we are to meet with our counsel on both sides toward an arbitration, upon which I was very late, and so to bed.
setting out after dinner
night in my ear
on both sides
a rat
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 December 1662.