- Full Text
- When this you see, remember me …
And bear me in your mind.
What others say when I’m away
Speak of me as you find.
- Listed on Page Number
- 256
- Sampler Worked By
- Sally Haynes
- Date of Sampler
- 1785
- Place Sampler Made
- Boston, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 51
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- An early example in print: “Posies for Rings, or Motto’s for Presents,” Wit’s Academy; Or, the Muses Delight. Being the Newest Academy of Complements: Consisting of Merry Dialogues Upon various Occasions, Composed of Mirth, Wit, and Eloquence… 6th Ed. with Additions, London: W. Wilde for Eben Tracy, 1696, p. 150.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Caldwell, Susanna. 1797, Ipswich, MA, p. 36;
Easton, Elizabeth. 1795, n.p., p. 43;
Lockwood, Phebe, 1785, n.p., p. 61;
Nickalls, Susanne. 1792, Londonderry, p. 66'
Buffington, Mary. 1801, n.p., p. 134'
Hendrickson, Alice. 1807, Monmouth County, NJ, p. 172;
[Oxiy], Nancy 1814, n.p., p. 204'
Van Wyck, Elizabeth. 1807, Huntington, p. 235.
This is an folk motto used for mementos of all kinds of items.
https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-wits-academy-_1696