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Conscience distasteful truths may tell But mark her sacred lessons well Who ever lives with her at strife Loses his better friend for life.

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Conscience distasteful truths may tell But mark her sacred lessons well Who ever lives with her at strife Loses his better friend for life.
Listed on Page Number
308
Sampler Worked By
Margaret Ann Bull
Date of Sampler
1811
Place Sampler Made
Hartford, CT
Sampler Listed on Page
134
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Cotton, Nathaniel. Visions in Verse for the Entertainment and Instruction of Younger Minds. 2nd ed., London: R. Dodsley, 1751. p. 65. See also: Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse… London: J. Phillips, 1787, p. 103.
Notes
Cotton: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visions_in_Verse/BMGGiFVSQ8AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=indeed Variation: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_miscellanies-moral-and-_1787/page/n103/mode/2up?q=%22Conscience+distasteful+truths+may+tell%22 This sampler’s verse is a variation of Cotton’s poem. The sampler’s version is found unattributed in a book of prose and verse for school children.