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On a Gallant Old Batchelor [Mr Pages:inserted with ^] picking up a young Ladies gloves at Sydney Gardens Bath while restored with the following extempore effusion If but from your Glove you take the letter G Your glove is love, wch [underlined in dashes] I devote to thee. Upon wch the young lady immediately replied And if from page you take the letter P. Then Page is Age - and that won't do for me. [line of dashed]