Thanks be to my friends for their care of my breeding Who taught be betimes to love Working and Reading

Full Text
Thanks be to my friends for their care of my breeding Who taught be betimes to love Working and Reading
Listed on Page Number
261
Sampler Worked By
Lucinda Patten
Date of Sampler
1794
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
67
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Watts, Isaac. “The Sluggard.” In ‘Divine and Moral Songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children with some additional composures.’ England, 1715.
Notes
This is from the last verse of the poem. Other samplers- Susanna Clarke, Oct 16 1800. P.139; Susan Coit, 1806 p.140; Nancy Gilbert, 1806 p.162 The poem was satiried by Lewis Carroll as "The Voice of the Lobster".