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The finest mould the soonest will decay Hear this ye fair for you yourselves are clay May this a warning be to all That God will judge both great and small.

Full Text
The finest mould the soonest will decay Hear this ye fair for you yourselves are clay May this a warning be to all That God will judge both great and small.
Listed on Page Number
291
Sampler Worked By
Mary Bragg
Date of Sampler
Anonymous. “An Ode, by an Under-Graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford, on a broken China Cup.” The Weekly Museum. No. 103, March 2, 1776. p. 524.
Place Sampler Made
West Springfield, MA
Sampler Listed on Page
124
Notes
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-weekly-musuem-or-i_1774_2/page/n495/mode/1up?q=%22finest+mould+the+soonest%22 The first two lines are from this cheeky ode to a beer tankard broken by an undergraduate! A search was made to see if it was a parody of an earlier work that would have been familiar to the contemporary reader, but none was found. The last two lines do not belong to this Ode and were not found.