The Project Gutenberg eBook, Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries, by Marcus Bourne Huish

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SAMPLERS AND
TAPESTRY EMBROIDERIES

Tho our Countrie everywhere is fil’d
With ladies and with gentlewomen skil’d
In this rare art, yet here they may discerne
Some things to teach them if they list to learne
And as this booke some cunning workes doth teach
Too high for meane capacities to reache
So for weake learners other workes here be
As plaine and easie as an A B C.
—The Needle’s Excellency.

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Plate I.—Tapestry Embroidery. Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth.
The Corporation of Maidstone.

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