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Can anyone read the words at the start of the first line? Before "are all mixed"?

Pleasure pain weal and cove

My guess is the same although not sure about cove. I don't know where this was written but if you take into account possible mis spelling Wheal is Cornish for work/toil as well as for a mine.

Thanks. I thought the 3rd word might be real, but can't make anything sensible out of the 4th. It was written by a young man in 1871 and he used few commas and was fond of phrases from school Latin and the music halls so it could be a catch phrase that is outdated.

Looking atthe general meaning of the piece I suspect they're antonyms and if the Cornish link is there, referring to a place of toil (weal) and a place of shelter (cove)

That would make sense then of the sentiment
pleasure pain
work and Home
being mixed up in such a life.

Finally dawned on me that one word was "woe"!

So here it is, a phrase that I had not seen before

"In weal and woe", meaning in prosperity and adversity

http://www.finedictionary.com/In%20weal ... 20woe.html

5/10 to SRD and huge gratitude to all. I'm transcribing an unpublished travel diary and it would be so annoying to have a blank bit!

Woe does make sense, but the shape of 'w' elsewhere in the piece doesn't conform to the first letter(s) of the word.