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Fig. 22.—Sampler by Mary Bywater. 1751.
Formerly in the Author’s Collection.

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Fig. 23.—Heart-shaped Sampler by Mary Ives.
Dated 1796.
Miss Haldane.

Note.—This delightful little sampler is reproduced in its full size, and is most delicately adorned with a pink frilled ribbon edging. We do not know which of the three ladies whose names it bears worked it, or to which of them the lines, “Be unto me kind and true as I be unto you,” were addressed. The date, it will be seen, is 1796, and it shows that at the end of the century there was still an affection for the little flying Cupids so usual upon eighteenth-century gravestones. We have remarked upon the absence of the cross in samplers: even here we do not find it, although we have the heart and anchor.