A very common verse, breathing the same strain, is:—
“Fragrant the rose, but it fades in time
The violet sweet, but quickly past the Prime
White lilies hang their head and soon decay
And whiter snow in minutes melts away
Such and so with’ring are our early joys
Which time or sickness speedily destroys.”
And the melancholy which pervades the verse on the sampler of Elizabeth Stockwell ([Fig. 14]) is hardly atoned for by the brilliant hues in which the house is portrayed.
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Plate VII.—Sampler by Hannah Dawe.
17th Century.
Formerly in the Author’s Collection.
This is a much smaller specimen than we are wont to find in “long” Samplers, for it measures only 18 × 7¼. It differs also from its fellows in that the petals of the roses in the second and third of the important bands are in relief and superimposed. The rest of the decoration, on the other hand, partakes much more of an outline character than is usual. As a specimen of a seventeenth-century Sampler it leaves little to be desired. It is signed Hannah Dawe.
