- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 165
- Full Text
- Please to survey this with a tender eye
Put on good nature and lay judgement by.
- Listed on Page Number
- 276
- Sampler Worked By
- Peesis Rice
- Date of Sampler
- 1815
- Place Sampler Made
- Marlborough, Mass
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 214
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- The Search for Happiness: A Pastoral Drama/United States/1803
- Notes
- https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5562375&seq=13&q1=%22with+a+tender+eye%22
The full verse reads as follows:
Wit trembling diffidence, with modest fear, Before this gentle audience we appear. Ladies survey us with; a; tender; eye;, Put on good nature, and lay judgment by. No deep-laid Plot adorns our humble page, But scenes adapted to our sex and age. Simplicity is all our Author's aim, She does not write, nor do we speak for fame. To make amusement and instruction friends
A lesson is the guise of play she sends
She claims no merit but her love of truth
No plea to favor, but her sex and youth
With these alone to boast, she sends me here
To beg your kind indulgent ear
Of critic, man, she could not stand the test
But you with softer, gentler hearts are blessed
With him she dares not rest her feeble cause,
A mark too low for satire or applause
Ladies, protect her, do not be satiric
Spare censure, she expects not panegyric.