Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge.  Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge shown below:

That I deny;
The man recon:
ciles himself to
his Journal as
he does to his Life,
—- & after all,
which of us is
doing any thing
better? not I
am sure
H:L:P

Annotations by Hester Thrale Piozzi to her copy of The Spectator (1789). Gen MSS Vol 527, vol. 4, pp. 412-413.