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To God above and to your friends below Still let your breast with zeal and duty glow Time well employed is a most certan gain Earnest of pleasure remedy for pain Seize on the winged hours without delay Nor trust to morrow while we live to day

Full Text
To God above and to your friends below Still let your breast with zeal and duty glow Time well employed is a most certan gain Earnest of pleasure remedy for pain Seize on the winged hours without delay Nor trust to morrow while we live to day
Listed on Page Number
285
Sampler Worked By
Anna Dick
Date of Sampler
1799
Place Sampler Made
Salem, NJ
Sampler Listed on Page
41
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Wynne, John Huddlestone. Riley’s Emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine… London: F. Newberry and G. Riley, 1779. pgs. 155, 208
Notes
These are three sets of couplets selected from several portions of various poems in the same book. However the first couplet, lines one and two, appear in an earlier 1772 edition of this book. Lines three through six do not appear until the 1779 edition which contains them all. I conclude that the 1779 version is the likely source for all. Links: First Couplet: Lines 1-2, 1779 Second and Third Couplets Lines 3-6, 1779