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This is a sampler worked by Emma Blenkarne aged 9, and finished on 3rd March 1825.

This is one of the few samplers in the Herbert's collection that is not solely worked in cross-stitch. The work of the ground under the animals may be disguising a mistake.

The text reads

Tell me ye knowing and discerning few

Where I can find a friend both firm and true

Who will stand by me when in deep distress

And then their love and friendship most express

My young attempts I here expose

As nature does a budding rose

This verse about friendship appears regularly on samplers, although this is the only one in the Herbert's collection to have it on.