Calling all history buffs! Can you decipher this writing and painting?

[OwlChops]

Hopefully the photos will attach before too long - I know MNHQ take time to approve photos at the moment

It's a watercolour (I believe) portrait of a lady. Early Victorian I'd say and perhaps a lady in mourning as she's in black

Please have a look at the photos showing the writing. I think the first word is ' Please' but I'm not sure. And does it say 'Mrs Bentham' in the corner?

Thanks for any help

@TressiliansStone some good points. And you're correct - who could actually afford a portrait? Generally someone of some social standing with money

Probably not relevant, but mildly tantalising...

From the codicil of Jeremiah Bentham père's will, signed by him on 31 October 1791 and proved on 5 April 1792:

And I do hereby give devise and bequeath to my said dear Wife the Picture of myself which now hangs up in the Drawing Room of my said Dwelling House in Queens Square Place to keep or dispose of as she shall think fit knowing as she does where my Inclination is it shall terminate whenever and in Case neither my own or any of her Family shall think it worth his or their while to pay any regard to it

(Will available from the National Archives via the Discovery online catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ , ref: PROB 11/1217/47. It's an interesting read – provision for his sons Jezza & Samuel to continue to have access to various documents they've left with him, and unusually Jeremiah gives his place and date of birth: "in the Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate on the second day of December 1712".)