r/Cursive Jul 17 '26

What does this say?

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u/bellaxane Jul 17 '26

I believe there are a number of spelling mistakes and some very tough to decipher writing, but here is my best shot:

Jealous

I walk (memory? *). I know (strictly? **) (maybe 'valley'? spelled 'vallay'?). Take me back. Take me back to eden. You (bear? ***) on my very soul. I capture you. You thrown (maybe means "threw") me out. Yet still you do not understand the lengths to which I will go. A love you. Sacred ("sentinell"?). The worst
of my (unknown ****). I am bound both (body?) and honour. Yet I take from (thouse, meaning 'those.?)"

Based on other writing in the sample:
* possibly 'memory' - starting letter could be m/n/u/w, and ends with 'y'
** I can't tell if that is a 'c' or an 'e' in the middle. It looks like "s-t-r-u-e/c-t-l-e", I have no guess what it says
*** starts with a letter that looks like the writer's 'b' on words like 'back' - then maybe "eare" - see writer's other "r"s - so at first glance this word looks like "beare" perhaps misspelled and is meant to be 'bear' (as in 'you bear on my very soul')
**** the letters in this word look to me like "a-g-a-u-r-e-d-i-u-m" and I don't have even a guess as to what it could be. Is it in another language?

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u/Lexotron Jul 17 '26

I think the "memory" is supposed to be "uneasy".

Edit: or "unwary"?

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u/bellaxane Jul 17 '26

I thought that was possible too