Another rhyme is found with varying words in some of the lines:—
"Young Ladyes fair when youthful minds incline
To all that's curious, Innocent, and fine
With Admiration let your worke be made
The various textures and the twining thread
Then let your fingers with unrivalled skill
Exalt the Needle, Grace the noble Quill."
Some of the verses are as short as the scant but sweet English words on the sampler of Katherine, the wife of Charles II.:—
"21st of Maye
Was our Wedding Daye."
A sampler in the Old South Church in Boston has this inscription:—
"Dorothy Lynde is my Name
And this Work is mine
My Friends may have
When I am Dead and laid in Grave
This Needlework of mine can tell
That in my youth I learned well
And by my elders also taught
Not to spend my time for naught."
Polly Coggeshall's Sampler