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Make use of present time Because thou must Shortly take up thy Lodging in the dust Learn to avoid What thou believest is sin Mind what reproves Or justifies within

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Make use of present time Because thou must Shortly take up thy Lodging in the dust Learn to avoid What thou believest is sin Mind what reproves Or justifies within
Listed on Page Number
292
Sampler Worked By
Rachel Petit
Date of Sampler
1813
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
207
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Anonymous. A Directory for the Female Sex: Being a Father’s Advice to his Daughter…London: George Larkin, 1684. Pg. 1 and Fry, John. “An Alphabetical Acrostick, composed for the Use of Schools.” Select Poems, containing religious epistles, etc…London: Mary Hinde, 1774. pg. 5
Notes
First stanza: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-directory-for-the-fema_1684/mode/1up?q=mind Second stanza: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_Poems_containing_religious_epistl/dKtYAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 The second stanza are two lines of the acrostic for the letters L and M.