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