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The speaker asks God for punishment, professes love for one person and seeks mercy for a black whorish soul. The final rows describe being lost without the addressee and dead.

The appeal continues the self-blaming language on page 062 through prayer and exclusive attachment. The speaker's self-description belongs to the manuscript; it is not a clinical or moral judgment by the interpretation.

A handwritten continuation: 'friends, may God punish / me, But I love you / I love you, no other,', a plea for 'mercy on my black whorish / soul', ending 'I am lost without you / I am dead.'

The appeal continues the letter on pages 54 and 62 in the same self-condemning voice; the writer is not identified further.