With passions unruffled, untainted with pride By reason my life let me square The wants of my nature are cheaply supplied And the rest are but folly and care How vainly through infinite trouble and strife The many their labours employ Since all that is truly delightful in life Is what all if they please may enjoy.

Full Text: With passions unruffled, untainted with pride By reason my life let me square The wants of my nature are cheaply supplied And the rest are but folly and care How vainly through infinite trouble and strife The many their labours employ Since all that is truly delightful in life Is what all if they please may enjoy.
Listed on Page Number: 348
Sampler Worked By: Eliza Gano
Date of Sampler: 1814
Place Sampler Made: Pattenburg, NJ
Sampler Listed on Page: 160
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Fitzgerald, Thomas. “An Ode,” Poems on Several Occasions, By the Late Reverend Thomas Fitzgerald, Rev. Thomas Wintour, Ed. Oxford: Thomas Wintour, 1781, pp. 23-24 See also: “Song XXVI, I Love thee, by Heaven, & ec.” The Vocal Miscellany. A Collection of above Four Hundred Celebrated Songs…2nd ed. Corrected, with Additions., London: Joseph Hazard, Charles Corbett, Caesar Ward and Richard Chandler, 1734, p. 22.
Notes: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_poems-on-several-occasio_fitzgerald-thomas_1781 See also: 1734 Songbook: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-vocal-miscellany-a-_1734 These are selected lines from Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald’s poem which was published posthumously by his grandson, Rev. Thomas Wintour in 1781. It was published uncredited in this songbook in 1734. The first edition of this songbook was not available online.