- 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".