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[Jennifer J. Leong Cardwell, j_leongcardwell@yahoo.com, transcription 8 July 2017] Mon premier, est [illegible: louzour?] premier Mon second, est premier et dernier Mon Tout, Je vous dirai malgra moi [note: translation will be needed]

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My first and second are the Lot of each delighted guest When every sorrow is forgot [note: appears to have made a mistake spelling "forgot" because the word is in darkened ink and there are traces of the previous barely visible.] [note: In the right hand margin, "sonnets" is written.] At Spencers Social Feast - They both together form a word [image: big "X" stamp with black splotch from where the ink must have gotten wet. Obscures most of "hark" on the next line.] Which when those hours are hark They grieve to think howe'er deferd: [note: "d" was on top of the colon, which probably means that this is shorthand for deferred.] Must be pronounc'd at last. [note: slight flourish at the end to indicate the last sentence of that section. The next line has two underlines to indicate the end of the section.]

I would not be my first [note: In the right hand margin, "Scotland" is written. ] For the sake of my second Nor for the possession of my whole. [note: slight flourish at the end to indicate the last sentence of that section. The next line has two underlines to indicate the end of the section.]

What the mail coach cannot go without- and is not the least service to it. [illegible: noose?][note: There is downward facing carat which may have been a "w" to try to correct it to the word "news".] [note: the "r" in "service" was placed above the "e" and a carat was below the "e" to indicate that the word was originally misspelled.] [note: the next line has an underline to indicate the end of the section.]

My first is myself and a very short word My second's a Puppet [note: "a" in this sentence is above was a barely crossed out ampersand] & you are my third. Idol