Rectangular sampler worked on linen or possibly wool (tammy) ground with red, dark green, light green, yellow, light blue, dark blue, and white silk embroidery threads using cross, satin, Algerian eye, and Queen's stitches. There are six bands containing motifs and verses: Top Band: Embroidered in Algerian eye stitch: "SEEK NOT TO BE RICH BUT HAPPY" Second Band: Wide undulating vine with leaves and star shaped flowers Third Band: Embroidered in satin (?) stitches: "STRIVE TO EXCEL IN DOING WELL" Fourth Band: Various crowns and coronets Fifth Band: zig-zag line alternating with small squares Below band in center - a verse embroidered in red letters: "Induftry taught in early Days/Not only gives the teacher Praife/But gives us Pleafure when we view/The work which we were Taught to do/Our Parents with exulting Joy/Survey it as no childifh Toy/But as a Prelude that each Day/A greater genius fhall difplay/Go on my Dear Strive to Excel/Improve in Work and Learning well/For Book and Needle both Contend/To make a Houfewife and a Friend" Below this verse: a second verse worked in red letters within a box embroidered in yellow stitches: "Thro'every gentle fliding Hour/May truth and virtue be my guide/Nor foft Temptation find a Power/To draw my fteady Soul afide" Below this verse worked in red letters within a box outlined in yellow and blue stitches: "Elizabeth Young Her Work 1782" On either side of the long verses stands a tall vase (Queen's stitch) with floral bouquet containing various flowers or Tree of Life motifs topped by a bird. A second smaller floral design with bird is placed to the outside of each vase.The outer border is formed of an undulating vine of red and pink honeysuckle and yellow dianthus (?) motifs. The sampler is framed in what could be an original painted wood frame and glazed.