The industrious bee extracts from evr’y flower It’s fragrant sweets and mild balsamic pow’r Learn thence with greatest care and nicest skill To take the good, and the reject the ill By her example taught, enrich thy mind Improve kind nature’s gifts, by sense refind. Be thou the honey-comb in whom may dwell Each mental sweet, not leave one vacant cell.

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Full Text: The industrious bee extracts from evr’y flower It’s fragrant sweets and mild balsamic pow’r Learn thence with greatest care and nicest skill To take the good, and the reject the ill By her example taught, enrich thy mind Improve kind nature’s gifts, by sense refind. Be thou the honey-comb in whom may dwell Each mental sweet, not leave one vacant cell.
Listed on Page Number: 258
Sampler Worked By: Tryphenia Collins
Date of Sampler: 1790
Place Sampler Made: n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page: 39
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Murry, Ann. "Mentoria: or, The Young Ladies Instructor, In Familiar Conversations On Moral And Entertaining Subjects: Calculated to improve Your Minds In the Essential, as well as Ornamental Parts of Female Education", Ireland, 1790..
Notes: Mentoria was evidently very popular, going through at least 11 editions and still being printed in 1814. English, Irish, and American printings are known to exist.