...refined, and faculties less elegantly cultivated, would have been better employed in this task : -' Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool : What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, and tresses...

...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses...

...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses...

...like her, or not lik'e beauty look. Alley n. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, and feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, and tresses...

...withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn In courts, and feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder...sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? There was another meaning...

...above the accidents of social life, and gave very little trouble to any one. Grave Milton says — Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife 's wool ; What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for tlmt, Love-darting eyes, or tresses...

...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish't head. Beauty is natures brag, and must be shown 74; In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most...features to keep home, They had their name thence; course complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to teize the huswifes...

...emphasizes the humble esteem in which sampler work was already held in some quarters. Comus says : — ' Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.' These quotations clearly show that samplers were common in the sixteenth...

...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses...

...pleasing or inspiring fashion. After all, as Milton has told us: Beauty is natures brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most...features to keep home, They had their name thence In the country when we step out of a villa, motel, or bathhouse it will be into a formal landscape....