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Beauties like princes from their very youth Are perfect strangers to the voice of truth.

Full Text
Beauties like princes from their very youth Are perfect strangers to the voice of truth.
Listed on Page Number
347
Sampler Worked By
Mary Pearse
Date of Sampler
1812
Place Sampler Made
Portsmouth
Sampler Listed on Page
205
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Gay, John. “Fable I, The Lyon, the Tyger, and the Traveller,” Fables, 3rd edition, London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729, p. 2.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_fables-by-mr-gay_gay-john_1729 Gay’s verse reads: “Princes, like Beauties, from their youth Are strangers to the voice of truth:” John Gay’s Fables were written and dedicated to a young prince, then William, Duke of Cumberland. Our stitcher’s rearrangement of the lines was likely copied from a textbook for the average student, or to better suit the meaning for young girls.