- Full Text
- 1. Tho Plunged In Ills And Exercised In Care
Yet Never Let The Noble Mind Despair
2. For Blesings always Wait On Virtous Deeds
And Tho a late a Sure Reward Succeeds.
- Listed on Page Number
- 335
- Sampler Worked By
- Sarah Leake Whitacar
- Date of Sampler
- 1791
- Place Sampler Made
- Cumberland County, NJ
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 85
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- 1. Phillips, Ambrose. The Distrest Mother, 2nd ed., London: S. Buckley and F. Tonson, 1712. p. 57 2. Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride A Tragedy, 2nd ed., London: Jacob Tonson, 1697, p. 66. See also: Haywood, Eliza Fowler. The Triumph of Fortitude and Patience over Barbarity and Deceit…,” The Female Spectator, Book XXII, London: T. Gardner, 1746, p. 250.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Crocker, Eliza. 1803, Boston, MA, p. 144.
1. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-distrest-mother-a-tr_philips-ambrose_1712
2. https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-mourning-bride-a-tr_congreve-william_1697
Although these two verses are from different original sources, they are notably combined and attributed to one author, although not named, in a 1746 issue of Eliza Fowler Haywood’s magazine, The Female Spectator. This influenced others to continue to use these two verses combined and without attribution.