Pricilla and John, 1898
Oil on canvas

'Truly Pricilla,' he said, 'when I see you spinning and Spinning,
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of other,
Suddenly you are transformed, are visibly changed in a moment;
You are no longer Pricilla, but Bertha the Beautiful Spinner.'

Thus, with a jest and a laugh, the skein on his hands she adjusted,
He sitting awkwardly there, with his arms extended before him.
She standing graceful, erect, and winding the thread from his fingers…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"

A scene from Longfellow's "The Courtship of Miles Standish", in which John Alden inadvertently wins Pricilla's heart for himself.